This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 60

This Time, the the Villain’s Favorite Dwighter

Chapter 60 Very Low-key

“Bring your brotherto our classrooni for a quick walk through, and nobody would dare mess with us ever again!”

Those spineless little opportunists in class.

She got more animated with every word. “Maya, you could totally have your brother hit them with that wicked little smile and help you take back everything you lost!

“That sounds completely ridiculous,” Maya said.

The two little girls went quiet!

They leaned their heads together and traded whispers, voices low and buzzing with conspiracy. Not a trace of guilt existed between them about the chaos they’d caused, just pure and barely leashed evitement.

Every single word floated directly into Toby’s ears. He shut his eyes briefly, then repeated himself with the patience of a man running very low on it. “Would someone please tell me what actually happened?”

Why do I recognize half the people stuffed into this tiny office?

From across the room, it looked like a gathering of exceptional people. Standing in the middle of it, it was just a room packed with familiar faces. The sensation was genuinely unpleasant.

Maya knew the cardinal rule of getting someone in trouble: move first and seize the moral high ground.

She got her voice up before anyone else could draw breath. “Rufus grabbed my shoulder first, obviously, and I only hit back because I had to! Then he went completely low and called his brothers in to jump

Maya finished and lowered her head in a flawlessly constructed portrait of suffering.

“He had two brothers backing him up at this school. I only had one.”

That last line nearly pulled a laugh out of Toby through sheer helpless exasperation.

His voice rose before he could rein it in. “You only had one?! Do not exist?!”

Those words dropped into the room, and the office went perfectly still for two full seconds

Even their homeroom teacher could only stare at him.

Toby locked up for a beat, then bit down sharply on his lower lip and caught the faint taste of iron.

There it was again.

Every single tine Maya was involved, his self-control just quietly disintegrated.

He said nothing.

“She’s lying!” Rufus shouted, not about to be buried without a fight. His eyes cut straight to Toby as he pushed harder. “She hit me first! I was only trying to stop her from going after someone!”

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warmth.

Finished

“Then your should’ve taken it.” Toby gave Rufus one flat, frigid took, his voice carrying absolutely no

He used to absorb hits every single day without uttering a single word about it.

Toby had only asked out of idle curiosity. The details didn’t matter to him. A tolerable outcome was sufficient, and from everything he could see, neither of his siblings had taken any real damage.

The two older boys, by contrast, had bled enough to require attention, and they were currently swathed in bandages from head to toe.

“This is easy enough to settle. Remove those two.” Toby tilted his chin lazily toward the older boys, his expression utterly flat. “Bullying younger students and still expecting to keep their enrollment. Does that strike you as appropriate, Ms. Peterson?”

Their teacher felt a dull throb begin to build behind her eyes. “I’m not their homeroom teacher, so expulsion would need to be processed through the principal.”

She didn’t bother pushing back against it, though.

It wouldn’t have changed anything.

The Clarks were, in every meaningful sense, Harmony International School’s most significant benefactors. With a legitimate reason sitting right in front of him, removing two problem students would cost Toby nothing at all.

Rufus stared for two full, blank seconds. “You can’t just kick my brothers out!”

“Then you can leave with them.”

Toby didn’t give him another glance. He delivered the ultimatum without a flicker of hesitation, then let his attention settle on Jonathan, who’d stayed remarkably composed through the entire ordeal.

Before arriving, Toby had already had someone compile background information on every person in the

room.

“Your father runs a tech company, right? That Southeast Ramoria expansion deal your company’s been pursuing doesn’t need to go any further.” A very faint smile touched the boy’s lips. “I’d look for a better-fit partner if I were you.”

“I didn’t even do anything!” Jonathan stared at him, genuinely blindsided.

He hadn’t even had the opportunity to act on anything.

If anything…

He glanced sideways at Alfred, who sat beside him looking carved from stone, and it quietly settled in that he was the one who’d spent time pinned to the floor and was still mildly dizzy from it.

But Toby had never once operated within the boundaries of reason.

He didn’t wait for any of the other parents to arrive, and he gave their teacher no room to step in and

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mediate. He simply rounded everyone up and walked out with them.

By the time Rufus’ parene made it to the school the back-to-back revelation that their sons had been beaten and were being expelled hit them somewhere tender and deep

“Our kids got hurt, and you just let everyone walk out of here?” they pressed.

“There wasn’t a great deal I could do,” their teacher said, wearing her most convincing expression of helplessness as she laid out her suggestion.

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