This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 57

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“Of course!” Kaia declared. My dad loves me the most.”

Then, as if some invisible hand had reached in and pulled the words right out of her, Maya asked the single dumbest question she’d ever uttered.

“Can you stop him from coming?”

She regretted it the second it left her mouth.

Hoping Thomas wouldn’t show up was completely pointless. She’d be far better off finding a way to skip school that day herself.

Missing one day wasn’t the end of the world, anyway. A little sweet–talking with her mom would handle i just fine.

Those words settled between them, and Kaia’s gaze softened into something drenched in pity. “Is your da an embarrassment? Is that why you don’t want mine coming?”

Maya stared at her. “Excuse me?”

There was absolutely no way her dad was an embarrassment!

Raymond was, if nothing else, a living legend when it came to sleeping.

He could fall asleep anywhere, under any circumstances.

Half–asleep in the dead of night, he’d hear her call out just once and launch himself straight out of bed. He’d pour her a glass of water with his eyes still shut, then shuffle back the exact same way he came.

Her dad was practically a superhero.

“Your dad is the most pathetic, cowardly, and disgusting man alive.” Maya’s voice came out ice–cold, each word dropping like a stone.

A father who turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to his child’s suffering wasn’t any better than a corpse

“Don’t you dare insult my dad!”

Fathers were a topic Maya and Kaia could never touch. The moment it came up. Kata would de tonale. snatching whatever book was closest and hurling it straight at her

Maya didn’t even flinch

With aim that atrocious, it was practically a comedy routine

When the book missed, Kaia lunged forward and grabbed the tie at Maya’s collar

Maya wasn’t about to let herself get dragged around like that. She caught Kata’s wrist without hesitation and pinned her down flat against the desk

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To could’ve ended there

But someone just constions Leave well exterugh alone

Sull overflowing with misplaced righteousness and apparently having learned nothing from best f Rufus pushed forward again to bark the wrong sule grinding his hand hard water Maya’s unde

Knock it off. Maya

With one hand, Maya shoved Kasa’s head down and cracked it against the desk

With the other, she grabbed the nearest book and slammed a straight into his face Work Prince Toad”

The impact sent him reeling back two full steps

1 boy’s pride was the most fragile thing in existence Rufus pressed a hand to his face and marked. “You’re

lone.

My brother will hear about this!

Maya blinked at him. “Seriously?

Vho actually runs to get their big brother just because they can’t win a fight?

he blinked again, and the little rat had already bolted right out the door

onathan was startled. No matter how he turned it over in his head, he hadn’t expected something like this o blow up in the time it took to blink.

le rose to his feet, trying to work out if there was anything he could do for Kala

The two of them had grown up side by side since they were small, and what they had ran far deeper than in ordinary friendship.

red welt had risen across Kaia’s forehead

Maya had slammed her head into the desk without a second thought

Where pang of protectiveness surged through Jonathan He’d barely lifted his foot toward the chaos when Wired grated him by the collar and hurled him down hard to the floor

Sifred’s warning came our flat and frozen “Stay out of it

Whatever fighting techniques fonathan had picked up were worthless here. He refused to quit and wrenched against Alfred’s griptwice, only to had it completely humovable

They were the same age How is he this strong!

Alfred was weighing whether to just knock Jonathan on cold right there and then

His mother had shown him only how to render women womensions withou doing any lasting damag

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But no

Not in front of this many people.

No matter how composed a six–year–old could seem, choking someone out with this many witnesses around wasn’t an option.

He kept his grip locked around Jonathan instead, his expression carved from stone.

“You can’t beat me. I don’t mind putting you out right now.”

Jonathan caught the absolute seriousness threaded through those words. Choke me out, just like that?

What kind of monster is this kid?

Jonathan wasn’t about to lie down and accept it.

Since he’d trained in some fighting techniques, he could at least thrash hard enough to make his resista known.

There was nothing else he could do, and Alfred only clamped down tighter.

This was unbearable.

If they weren’t in a classroom right now, he would’ve already wrung the life out of him.

A beat of dead silence pressed down over that corner of the room.

Two older students reached the classroom fast, carrying not one drop of guilt about going after younger kids, and bristling with the urge to avenge their little brother.

“What’s your problem, kid? You actually hit my little brother?” the older one said.

He reached out as he spoke and grabbed for Maya’s collar.

“Are you serious right now?” Jenny, who’d been standing nearby, snapped. “You two are way older than her At least pick on someone your own size!”

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