Invincible Heir novel Chapter 13

“What are you doing?”

Unable to reach the children in time, Yuri could only shout.

“Yuri!”

No longer capable of holding back her tears, Lara gave a shout herself and raced towards Yuri.

Seeing that a parent had arrived, the boy lost his nerve and turned to run away.

In his rush, he slipped just as he turned, landing with a thump.

“Wahh…”

With his fall, the boy began to cry, drawing the attention of everyone on the scene.

Lara was crying herself into a mess as well, sobbing, “I’m not a wild child, I have a Dad.”

Her eyes red, Yuri held Lara in a tight hug, stroking the girl’s back as gentle as it could be. “Of course you’re not a wild child, Lara. You have a Dad.”

“Tony!”

A middle-aged couple hurried over, doting incessantly over the fallen child, “Don’t cry, baby, who bullied you? Mommy’s going to teach them a lesson.”

“She pushed me, Mommy! It really hurt!”

The crying boy levelled a tiny finger at Lara.

Yuri was beginning to rankle. She’d seen the boy move to push Lara with her own eyes, and the fall had been the fault of his own clumsy self anyway, even if he was lashing out now.

She didn’t have time to get a word in before the boy’s mother got in her face and fired away with indiscriminate abandon. “Your child is an undisciplined delinquent - the raw nerve of hers, hitting my son. Do you even know who I am?”

Indignant, Lara protested, “I didn’t hit him, he was going to hit me, and he called me a wild child who didn’t have a Dad.”

“So you really are an undisciplined little swine. If your household’s parents won’t discipline you, I’ll do it in their place.”

The boy’s mother made her way towards Lara even as she spoke, actually meaning to strike her.

Furious, Yuri stepped protectively in front of Lara, ready for a fight as she spat, “Just try laying a finger on her!”

“Madams, please, you can’t start a fight here!”

Noticing the situation, teachers ran over to stop the pair.

But it was too late, and the mother had already charged at Yuri, extending her hand to rake her fingers down her face. “I’ll rip that face of yours apart!”

Yuri was known as the Red-Hot Pepper of the Perry family, and she wasn’t exactly intent on letting some entitled, rambling little housewife get the better of her.

Before her opponent could even touch her, she’d snapped out her foot in a kick.

“Agh!”

The boy’s mother released a pained groan as Yuri’s high heel planted itself in her gut, and she turned her rage onto her husband. “So you’re just going to stand there and watch me get hit?”

The middle-aged man had been ogling Yuri since he first laid eyes on her, but now that his own wife was taking a beating, he threw his regard for beauty out the window and swung at her with a slap.

Shocked, the crowd tittered in disbelief that a man would lay hands on a woman in broad daylight.

“Yuri!” Lara shouted as the man closed, about to rush in herself.

Taken by surprise, there was no room for Yuri to dodge, and as the man’s palm filled the space between them, she instinctively squeezed her eyes shut.

Whap.

But in that instant, a shadow flickered before them, grasping the middle-aged man by the wrist.

“Ack!”

The pain in his wrist drew a strangled cry from the man.

Yuri opened her eyes at the sound, only to see a broad back shielding her from the front.

“Dad!”

Lara recognised her father just from his silhouette and released an overjoyed shout.