The Real Heiress Is Coming Back (Hannah Carter) novel Chapter 74

Chapter 74

“I didn’t hit him with any stone! He fell and hit his head himself, Lucian protested.

But Hannah focused on a different detail. “You started the fight and still lost?”

Lucian stared at her, momentarily speechless.

“How embarrassing. Tell Mom to enroll you in taekwondo lessons when we get home,” Hannah added calmly.

Lucian’s head snapped up, his eyes wide with disbelief.

He wasn’t the only one stunned. Both Brenda and Tina wore similar expressions of shock.

Instead of urging repentance, Hannah was suggesting training, as if preparing him for future conflicts.

“Oh, for heaven’s sake!” Stacy cut in, her tone dripping with theatrical scorn. “Is this what passes for upbringing where you’re from? Planning the next brawl already?

“Ms. Harper, a student who picks fights like this, has no place in this school. He should be expelled.”

“Well…” Brenda hesitated, clearly conflicted.

Lucian was, after all, a student in the top first-year class, while Jaden, a known troublemaker, belonged to one of the lower- stream third-year classes.

Brenda strongly suspected Jaden was far from innocent, especially given that Lucian had clearly come off worse in the

scuffle.

But with the Scott family’s financial decline and the Kincaids’ rising influence, the power balance had shifted. Had Lucian simply shown a little contrition, the matter might have been resolved easily. Instead, his defiance had backed everyone into

a corner.

“Expel me? If anyone deserves to be expelled, it’s that overweight bully!” Lucian burst out, his voice tight with panic at the threat. “I earned my place here fair and square. He’s the one who got in through backdoor deals…”

“That’s enough,” Hannah cut him off, her voice cold and final.

Lucian stared back at her, eyes blazing with a mix of fury and hurt, as though demanding to know whose side she was on.

But under her unyielding gaze, his protests died in his throat. He fell silent, fists clenched so tightly his knuckles turned white.

“How would you like to handle this?” Hannah asked, her tone measured as she turned to Stacy. “Through formal procedures, or would you prefer to settle this privately?”

Stacy, mistaking their composure for weakness, let out a derisive sniff. “A private settlement could be arranged. First, that ill- behaved brother of yours will apologize to my son. Then we might consider it.”

She took a theatrically large step back, as if graciously offering them space.

Lucian immediately bristled. “In your dreams! I did nothing wrong. That jerk started it with his disgusting comments. I won’t apologize. He should be the one apologizing!”

Hannah raised a hand, pulling him behind her. “One should apologize for their mistakes.”

Just as Lucian was about to erupt again, Hannah rested a firm hand on his head, a silent command to stand down.

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“Well? Don’t keep us waiting,” Stacy said, crossing her arms with a smug tilt of her chin.

“Before any apologies are made,” Hannah countered calmly, “your son provoked this fight with offensive remarks. Shouldn’t he be the first to apologize?”

On the way over, the boy leading her had given her a rough outline of what had happened.

It had begun abruptly at noon. On his way to the cafeteria, Lucian had overheard Jaden and his friends ahead of him, their conversation fixated on the upcoming school belle poll.

The release of the top ten rankings that evening had been the talk of the school all day, which in itself was hardly unusual.

The problem was Jaden. Precocious and crude, the boy had a notorious habit of lacing his talk with lewd insinuations. This time, his target was Hannah, who was poised to take first place. Lucian listened, his discomfort growing with each vulgar

remark.

The image of those boys snickering over a girl’s photo was distasteful enough. But the fact that their objectification was aimed at his sister made it unbearable.

So, Lucian publicly warned Jaden to stop insulting Hannah.

But Jaden wasn’t one to be challenged, especially not by a younger student. Publicly called out, his pride stung, he only doubled down, his language growing fouler, laced with explicit and degrading references.

Something in Lucian snapped. He shoved Jaden, and just like that, the fight was on.

“Bullshit. That’s a load of crap. My son never insulted anyone. Right, son?” Stacy said, turning to Jaden for confirmation.

But when she looked at her son, he was just standing there with a dumb, lecherous grin, staring at Hannah like she was his next meal.

Frustrated, she pinched his arm. “Well? Tell them!”

Jaden snapped out of his trance and nodded without even hearing the question. “Yeah, whatever you said.”

“See? My son’s done nothing wrong. You’ve got no proof, so stop throwing around accusations before I sue you for slander,” Stacy shot back, planting her hands on her hips.

She knew her son had a wandering eye, but without proof or cameras where the argument happened, Hannah had no way to prove anything.

“Ms. Scott, maybe it’s best if you just apologize. Making a scene won’t do you any good,” Tina, Jaden’s homeroom teacher, urged quietly.

She’d dealt with Stacy’s theatrics before and knew how this usually went.

The Kincaids had money, while the Scott family was now bankrupt. Even if Jaden started it, Lucian was fighting a losing battle.

“Then let’s do this by the book. We’ll call the police,” Hannah replied, her voice calm.

“Go ahead! Think I’m scared?” Stacy fired back.

Tina paled. “Ms. Scott, please, calling the police will only make things worse for everyone.”

But Hannah turned to Brenda. “Ms. Harper, Jaden beat my brother badly enough to suggest violent tendencies. Shouldn’t the school consider expelling students who pose a physical threat to others?”

Brenda paused, then caught Hannah’s meaning. “That would be standard procedure, yes.”

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“What?! Your brother threw the first punch and hit my son with a rock. Look at his forehead!” Stacy shrieked.

Hannah smiled faintly. “Can you prove my brother started it?”

The best way to deal with a bully was to be twice as cunning.

“You!” Stacy choked on her words.

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“Besides, that bump on your son’s head isn’t even broken skin. It’s just a bruise from something flat. Definitely not from a rock.” Hannah noted coolly.

“That’s bullshit! The nurse didn’t say it wasn’t from a rock. You don’t know what you’re talking about,” Stacy insisted.

The school nurse mumbled under her breath, “I never said it was a rock. You assumed that.”

Stacy shot her a venomous look, and the nurse immediately fell silent. She was just an employee, no match for a bully like Stacy.

“Want to see what a rock injury really looks like?” Hannah asked, spotting two shot puts near the desk. She went over and picked one up.

“No rocks around, but this should work just as well,” she said, hefting the metal ball and glancing meaningfully at Jaden’s head.

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