Next One Is a Babe novel Chapter 228

Although Sophia was slow to react, Ian had better reflexes, so he turned immediately to pull Sophia into an embrace with his back against the incoming projectile. John was standing on her left but slightly further away, so he didn’t manage to react in time.

The shard crashed into Ian’s back before smashing into smithereens on the ground, while Sophia felt a prickling pain on her calf, which might be due to a wound inflicted by the broken shards. Logan seemed to have forgotten about his anger as he stared at Ian and Sophia while the room fell into dead silence for a few seconds.

It was John who first came to his senses. Stepping in, he pulled Ian away from Sophia to check on her while holding both her shoulders. “Are you alright?”

Sophia looked between John and Ian before pouting. “My leg hurts, but I don’t have the courage to look at it. Am I bleeding?”

The suspender shorts she wore left her thighs and calves exposed. John squatted to see that her calf was indeed bleeding due to an injury caused by the shard. There were two or three wounds, which one of them seemed more severe due to the length of it. Sophia was afraid of pain, so she dared not watch whenever she received an injection, nor was she brave enough to look at her wounds.

After a few second’s pause, Logan rushed toward Sally, bellowing, “You scum! How dare you assault her! I hope you have a death wish!” Logan never had a sound moral compass to begin with, as he would threaten to beat his father up whenever they quarreled, so he had no qualms about kicking Sally because he never liked her to begin with.

Simon quickly pulled Sally aside, so he ended up on the receiving end of Logan’s kick, which prompted Leah to pull Sally and Simon behind her while chiding Logan, “What are you doing? You shouldn’t be resorting to violence!"

On the other hand, Sophia dared not lower her gaze while she froze on the spot. She then asked John with a trembling voice, “John, is the wound big? Does it look scary? My leg hurts, and I can barely stand, so please hold me, quick.”

While the wound wasn’t huge, the blood that trickled down from her wound was a stark contrast to her flawless skin, which made it seem all the more gory. There was a gloomy look on John’s face as he carried Sophia in his arms.

Sean and Old Mr. Morgan finally came to their senses, after which Sean quickly approached them. “Are you alright? I’ll go get the family doctor.”

With the help of his walking stick, Old Mr. Morgan propped himself up. “Quick, go get the doctor!”

“That won’t be necessary,” John turned them down harshly as he turned to look at Old Mr. Morgan, then at Sean, before finally staring daggers into Sally, Simon, and Leah. It was then that Sally realized what she’d done, as she quickly hid behind her mother.

Sophia seemed to be on the verge of tears as she shrunk into his arms with a pout. After a while, John said, “I will remember what happened today, and I will have you pay for what you did when I have the time to.”

He then carried Sophia away, while the latter was mumbling in his arms until they got into the car. Using some tissues, he wiped off the blood around her wounds to see that they were merely scrapes despite their length, which wouldn’t be that big of a deal.

However, Sophia dared not look at her wounds, keeping her head raised as she was afraid of gory stuff despite how foolhardy she could be. She thus asked in a trembling voice, “Does it look scary? My legs feel numb.”

John looked at her in resignation. “I already told you to stand further away from conflict. You shouldn’t have joined in on the fray.”