Chapter 202
Carter’s gaze darkened.
So Kelly had been right-this whole farce was Sharon’s doing.
Theo hadn’t expected his father to say that so bluntly. He froze for a few seconds, then rushed to explain, “Mom didn’t tell me to say that. I just… I really don’t want you and Mom to get divorced…”
But before he could finish, Carter cut him off.
“Tell me this did you sneak out to find your mother?”
His tone was cold, face sharp with disapproval. The pressure he carried-without raising his voice, without needing to-settled over the room like a weight. Theo shrank under it, his confidence crumbling.
He lowered his head. “Yes.”
Carter’s expression didn’t soften. His voice grew even colder. “Who told you she’d be at the amusement park?”
He’d already checked the boy’s phone-no suspicious calls, no messages. Which meant someone had told him in person.
Theo mumbled, “It was… Matty.”
As expected. Carter’s face barely shifted, but the knowledge settled in like something inevitable.
He had already suspected it-either Sharon told the boy herself, or she let Matty carry the message.
She’d sunk so low she was using children now.
Carter looked at his son, eyes full of unease and tension. His voice came out quiet and flat. “Don’t worry. Your mother won’t
divorce me.”
Just then, a soft knock broke the silence. The door opened.
Sharon stepped inside.
At the sight of her, Theo’s eyes lit up. His mom had come to see him!
No wonder that sneaky Matty always acted hurt-it worked. It actually worked.
A sense of discovery bloomed in him, like he’d just stumbled on something secret and useful.
Sharon walked in, her gaze immediately drawn to the boy watching her so intently. Her brows twitched, but she asked calmly,” How are you feeling? Still uncomfortable anywhere?”
Theo opened his mouth to say he was fine-he’d already recovered-but then he remembered Matty curled up in Mom’s arms, weak and pitiful, and how tenderly she held him, how gentle her voice had been.
So he changed his answer. “I… I still feel a little sick.”
But Sharon didn’t come over to comfort him. She didn’t reach out or soften her tone. Instead, she said, “Theo, why did you push Matty?”
He stared at her, stunned.
He thought she was here to check on him. But she wasn’t. She was here to blame him. Because of that awful Matty.
It was like a bucket of cold water dumped over his head. Every ounce of hope he had was doused, replaced by quiet disappointment and a swelling, unspoken sense of hurt.
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Chapter 202
“I didn’t push him! He jumped on his own!”
Sharon looked at him, then sighed softly, shaking her head.
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“Theo, the surveillance footage caught everything. It’s clear who did what. You know I’ve never asked much from you. I only ask that if you do something, you own up to it. Do you think pushing someone and then jumping after them will erase what you did?
Carter and Madeline had always demanded the highest academic performance from Theo. He had private tutors four days a week. Every weekend, Madeline would personally pick him up for lessons.
Sharon, in contrast, had wanted something simpler for him. A lighter, freer childhood.
But she also knew-Theo wasn’t like other kids. He was the heir to the Biggs family. From the moment he was born, he’d been marked for that role. There would be no easy path for him.
So she never pressured him academically.
What she focused on, always, was character.
She spent her time teaching him how to be a decent person. And every time she tried to correct him, Madeline would scold her. Said she was making a big deal out of nothing, that she didn’t know where to put her priorities when raising a child.
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