Chapter 138
“I wanted you dead?” Sharon repeated, her voice calm but puzzled. “Who told you that? Was it Kelly?”
Carter’s voice cut in, low and firm. “Sharon, don’t pin everything on Kelly.”
Her tone was lazy, almost bored. “Carter, you get so defensive the moment her name comes up. One might think you’re desperate to hide something… indecent.”
“Sharon, watch what you’re saying!”
“Watch what I’m saying? Everything I said has a basis. When Theo had his allergic reaction, only a few of us were there. So tell me, how did he get the idea that Matty and I didn’t save him? That we wanted him dead?”
She lifted a brow. “Unless… you’re the one who told him that? Or was it Kelly again?”
Carter’s brow twitched. His eyes shifted to Theo. “Theo, how did you come to think that?”
Kelly’s heart seized. She had told Theo-more than once-not to mention where he got that idea.
And yet here he was, standing in the middle of it all, about to open his mouth.
Kids couldn’t keep secrets. This was it.
Last time, after Sharon exposed her, Carter’s attitude had already changed. He no longer trusted her like before. If he found out she was behind this too… there’d be no going back.
“I figured it out on my own!” Theo snapped. “I wasn’t fully passed out that day. I could still hear things. I heard it with my own ears!”
Kelly’s tightly wound nerves finally eased.
Good. He hadn’t sold her out.
Theo turned his glare back to Sharon. “Don’t change the subject. Just answer me- was what I heard true or not?!”
Sharon didn’t miss the flicker of guilt in Kelly’s eyes, or the subtle relief that followed. Her gaze grew deeper, colder. So it was
her.
“It’s not true!” Matty stepped forward, voice clear and firm. “Sharon used the spray to save you. Everyone saw it!”
“You’re lying!” Theo shot back. “That spray didn’t even work. I threw it away a long time ago! A doctor saved me, not her!”
Sharon looked at Theo, but the disappointment she expected never came. Instead, her heart felt strangely numb-cold and still.
Theo was beyond saving. It was better to cut losses now. 1
She turned to Carter. “Matty saved your son’s life. And now your son’s accusing his savior of wanting him dead. Don’t you think you should say something?”
Carter’s voice was low. “Theo wasn’t in a good state. It’s natural he misinterpreted things.”
Sharon’s gaze was like still water. “A misunderstanding at the time—I can accept that. But he’s been discharged for a while now. And he still hasn’t let it go. You still think that’s normal?”
Carter didn’t respond. Instead, he looked away from her and turned to Theo.
And when his eyes met Theo’s, he saw it-just for a second. Hatred.
Why would a child look at his own mother like that?
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have survived at all.
Theo looked at her again.
But Sharon no longer met his gaze. She looked through him like he was a stranger.
It was only when she glanced down at Matty that her expression softened.
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