This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 61

Chapter 61 Stay Out

Whatever the security footage had captured, Maya’d been absolutely ferocious.

The same aggressive energy Toby carried was perfectly mirrored back.

They didn’t look like siblings at all.

They looked more like Toby had raised her himself.

Finished

The moment they stepped out of the office, Maya came roaring back to life. She bounced twice on her heels and threw herself at Annie, her gratitude so genuine it was almost startling. “Thank you so much. Annie!”

She genuinely hadn’t expected Annie to actually step in when it mattered.

Annie reached over and gave her soft hair an absentminded pat. “Don’t even worry about it.”

She understood perfectly well how obligation worked.

She had to, because Toby was a petty man at his core.

If she’d accepted his gift and then stood there while his little sister got beaten up, he’d have made her life very unpleasant the moment he found out.

Toby was the last to leave the office. Nobody knew what he’d discussed with the teacher, but when he finally wrapped up and looked up…

He found his girlfriend and his little sister with their arms wrapped around each other.

An inexplicable surge of fury hit him from nowhere. He wrenched them apart with one hand. “What are you two doing, all wrapped up in each other like that?”

“My apologies, Toby. Maya’s just irresistibly sweet.” Annie offered the explanation in her gentlest voice. “None of your business!” Maya shot back. “You get to be all cozy with girls, so why can’t I?”

Annie inhaled sharply. This kid is actually this bold?

“What happened to those etiquette classes I enrolled you in?” Toby asked. “Is that really the vocabulary they taught you?”

“I never went! You signed me up and I’m just supposed to show up? Says who?”

Toby’s bafflement deepened visibly. “I enrolled you. Why on earth wouldn’t you go?”

He’d pulled every string available to him just to find her a genuinely qualified instructor.

She’d disliked the previous one, and he’d dutifully arranged a replacement.

Why was she still not satisfied?

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“Fine, just you wait!” Maya pivoted immediately. “Wheit get home, I’m signing you up for Zumba! And you’d better show up and dance!”

“Me? Zumba?”

The sheer absurdity of the exchange nearly cracked the composure right off his face.

“Exactly,” Maya said. “I signed you up, so why wouldn’t you go?

“You know all about deals, don’t you? So let’s make one. To keep things perfectly fair, on weekends I’ll take etiquette classes and you take Zumba. I’m absolutely certain you’ll become the finest dancer this family

as ever produced.”

voice brightened with a What do you say?”

Toby had absolutely no

Maya finished holle

It was right at the move fast, their

Annie stood

who’d been

on and delight. “That way, we both have a spectacular future ahead of

to that.

pulled Jenny back toward the classroom to collect their bags.

ool day, and they’d burned so much time in that office that if they didn’t to start worrying.

w completely unhinged. She let out a small, dry laugh and turned to Alfred, rough all of it. “I didn’t see that coming. Is Toby this… animated around you

two?”

He’d ne

So

g like this in front of her.

genuinely afraid of her boyfriend, even when he was being gentle with her.

elt too constructed.

soap

bubble, beautiful right up until the moment it burst.

asperated version of him, though, was oddly reassuring in a way she hadn’t anticipated.

gs had been bickering right there in the office doorway, and students passing through the eir necks with curiosity. What they caught was Maya and an impossibly handsome boy going at full volume.

vo parted on decidedly unfriendly terms, Maya returned to the classroom, and someone mmediately. “That was the Clark heir, wasn’t it?”

he to you? How are you talking to him like that?”

Maya’s brother, obviously.” Jenny shoved the boy out of the way. “Move.”

he is.” The boy kept right on grinning. “I don’t buy that for a second. You two really love making gs up.”

va turned on him instantly, her

harp. “You want to get hit?”

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