Chapter 114
Matty was shoved hard to the ground by Kelly. 1
“What are you doing?!”
The small aerosol bottle slipped from Matty’s hand as he fell, skittering across the floor.
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Kelly frowned. “How dare you fool around here!”
Matty sat where he had landed, a scrape on his arm beginning to sting. He wrinkled his nose. “I wasn’t fooling around.”
“Oh really?” she snapped. “You bully Theo at kindergarten all the time, and now that he’s seriously ill, you come here to make trouble. Are you trying to get him killed? How can a child your age be so vicious?”
Matty replied quietly, “I didn’t mean to hurt Theo.”
Carter’s gaze turned cold. “Then what exactly were you doing just now?”
Matty shrank back slightly. “I was saving him.”
“Liar,” Kelly said, brows tightening.
“I’m not lying. I just did what Sharon told me to.”
Kelly laughed bitterly. “We have an actual doctor here, and you chose to listen to her instead?”
“But Sharon is Theo’s mom. She knows more about him than the doctor does,” Matty said.
Carter’s eyes flashed with something chilling. “If anything happens to Theo,” he said coldly, “I don’t care if you’re just a child- I won’t let it go.” 1
As soon as the words left his mouth, a murmur of surprise rippled through the crowd.
“Look! He’s getting better!”
Carter’s brow twitched. He turned quickly.
The color that had flushed Theo’s face was fading. His breathing, once labored, had calmed. Though red rashes still dotted his
skin, the convulsions had stopped.
The doctor stared, momentarily stunned. He bent to pick up the bottle Matty had dropped. It wasn’t a medication he recognized -nothing available on the market.
A distinct herbal scent lingered in the air. It was alternative medicine. Custom-made.
Seeing Theo stabilize, the tension in Sharon finally snapped. Her legs gave out and she collapsed where she stood, gasping for breath as if surfacing from a long, suffocating dive.
The crowd fell silent. Those holding her down slowly released their grip.
Maybe… she hadn’t been lying after all.
Just then, the ambulance arrived.
The paramedics quickly assessed Theo’s condition and fitted him with a breathing apparatus.
As they prepared to move him, one of them remarked, “There must’ve been a professional on-site. The treatment was both timely and accurate. This child’s condition is unusual. If CPR had been done the standard way, he probably wouldn’t have made
it.”
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“But don’t worry,” the medic added, “thanks to the swift and appropriate response, his vitals have stabilized. He’s no longer in immediate danger.”
The moment the words landed, the crowd fell utterly silent.
All eyes turned to Carter and Kelly.
The medic paused, sensing the shift in atmosphere. Had he said something wrong?
Seeing everyone watching them, he assumed they were the parents. “Are you the boy’s father and mother? Please come with me.
Under the weight of all those stares, Kelly felt as if she’d been slapped across the face-burning and raw.
She had come with her own hidden agenda, but this embarrassment… came far too fast. Not wanting to stay under the spotlight any longer, she quickly followed the medic, trying to disappear behind him.
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