This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 148

This Time Be the Villain’s Favorite Daughter

Chapter 148 Can I Have Your Dad?

Maya’s neck felt cold. Toby’s hands were freezing. She shivered.

Finished

She pressed her palms together and leaned in, eyes wide, pulling the most cartoonishly adoring face she could manage.

“Starting tomorrow, I’ll go to bed early and be a perfect student!” The words tumbled out at top speed. “Please, Toby, I love you so much, please don’t tell Mom!”

Toby pressed his palm against her forehead and pushed her back.

He studied her face carefully. He’d heard what he wanted to hear, and for once, he didn’t give the two kids a hard time.

“Let’s go.”

Back at Toby’s place, Maya changed out of her clothes and bolted for the shower, then bed.

She was beyond exhausted.

But she’d barely been lying down for five minutes when Alfred appeared in her doorway, freshly showered, wearing pajamas, holding his phone. Staring at her in silence.

“What?”

She looked at him, confused. It was the middle of the might, and he was still awake.

“Gaming.”

Alfred’s dark eyes locked onto her.

Maya could’ve sworn she detected a sliver of excitement buried under that flat monotone.

Gaming. Gaming. Gaming.

And from his phone’s mic, a teammate was yelling, “Who sleeps at this hour? Get up, let’s keep going!”

Maya wanted to scream. Alfred had turned into a gaming addict overnight. She snatched the phone out of his hand and discovered that the voice belonged to the same friend they’d been playing with online recently.

“We’re going to bed Maya announced into the mic. “We have school tomorrow!”

She was genuinely baffled. Alfred had been running around with her all day. Wasn’t he tired? Where did a this energy come from?

Maybe it was some kind of conservation of energy thing. He’d been in standby mode for so long that once someone cracked open the door to a new world, all that stored–up power came flooding out.

“Wait, hold on. Are you two elementary schoolers? Who goes to bed this early?”

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Chapter 148 Can! Hove Your Dad?

bright, clear voice came through the speaker.

Maya said yes.

Finished

The guy flipped instantly, suddenly righteous. “Kids need their sleep! What are you doing playing games? Study hard! Be good! Turn off the phone and go to bed!”

Alfred got kicked out of the party.

He stood there holding his phone, looking faintly crushed.

The next morning, Maya and Alfred shouldered their backpacks and headed to school.

When they got out of the car, Toby gave a lazy little wave from the window. “See you tonight.”

“You’re not coming?”

Toby leaned back in his seat. “Nope.”

He didn’t need to. He’d only been attending Harmony International School for fun. The teachers there couldn’t hold a candle to his private tutors.

“Why not?” Maya yanked open the car door, latched onto his arm, and started dragging him toward the school gates. “Come suffer with us! I don’t want to go to school either.”

Toby stumbled forward a step.

“Are you always this clingy?” He let himself be pulled out of the car, baffled by her childishness. “You need your brother to hold your hand on the way to class?”

But even as he said it, he glanced at her and caved. /”Fine. I’ll tag along.”

Maya went quiet at that condescending tone. “Thanks. We’re heading to class then.”

She grabbed Alfred and ran toward their classroom.

The two of them had been gone for a full week. The official excuse was sick leave.

During Maya’s absence, Kaia had come back to class two days ago.

But something about her was different. She used to act like a little princess, all wide–eyed innocence, occasionally dropping something cruel without realizing it.

Now she was quieter. The carelessness was gone. She almost seemed meek.

Maya gave her a passing glance and was about to look away when their eyes met head–on.

A second later, to Maya’s alarm, Kaia walked right up to her.

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