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“If you don’t like her, then hand her over to me. I can raise her. I get bored alone.”Â
“Do you even know how to raise a kid?” Toby leaned against the window and let out a mocking laugh, completely unmoved.Â
“You don’t trust me? Of course I know how to raise a kid. I’ll treat her well, so just bring her out and let me meet her,” the voice on the phone softened into a near whisper. “I really haven’t taken a life in a long time.”Â
Toby said nothing.Â
He chose silence as his answer and cut the conversation cold.Â
Letting someone like that near Maya would be a mistake.Â
Toby could act wild at times, yet he wasn’t the kind who smiled one second and strangled someone the next.Â
Most people couldn’t even react fast enough to that kind of shift.Â
Toby didn’t bother replying, and George didn’t need a response anyway since he could talk endlessly on hisÂ
own.Â
“Mom and Dad won’t even tell me where you live, but that’s fine. I already found out where you study,” George said with bright excitement.Â
“I’ll just wait right outside Harmony International School and meet her myself!”Â
Toby froze for a second as irritation surged through him.Â
He wanted to curse George, yet the call ended without warning, and the empty tone from the phone sounded like pure mockery.Â
The taunt felt deliberate and sharp.Â
He called back at once, yet the system told him the number didn’t exist.Â
Toby went silent.Â
In his mind, he cursed George over and over. He called him every name he could think of.Â
Normally, Toby didn’t care who lived or died as long as it didn’t involve his own circle.Â
The moment it touched someone close to him, unease and tension spread through him without control. That night, he couldn’t sleep at all.Â
The next morning, Toby sat slumped in a high-backed chair. Dark circles hung heavily under his eyes as he stirred his coffee with dull, mechanical motions. He looked like someone who might collapse at anyÂ
moment.Â
Jenny couldn’t hold back and nudged her friend as she whispered, “Your family doesn’t look very healthy.”Â
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She never expected the three girls to be the most energetic ones in the house.Â
The men looked worse than dead.Â
“Toby, your eyes look so dark. Did someone hit you?” Maya tilted her head and studied Toby with confusion.Â
“No.” Toby said as he bit his pale lower lip and stood up abruptly. He paced back and forth in the living room with a tone full of grievance. “Someone disturbed me.”Â
“Disturbed?” Maya scratched her head in confusion.Â
“I thought the biggest problem in this house was you.”Â
Toby stopped and let out a cold laugh. He understood himself clearly. “I may be bad, but I’m not that kind of problem.”Â
People like that existed on another level in this family.Â
Maya looked at him with curiosity. “Then what counts as that kind of problem?”Â
“Someone like George,” Toby answered without hesitation.Â
Maya froze.Â
She had no idea who George even was.Â
Annie had an awful week.Â
There were no dates, no gifts, and every short conversation with Toby revolved around the same lines.Â
“How was today?”Â
“Keep an eye on Maya.”Â
She was not a babysitter.Â
Most of the time, Annie stayed quiet in front of Maya and Alfred.Â
She usually just fixed her makeup while looking into a small mirror.Â
She had nothing in common with the two kids.Â
One day, she couldn’t hold it in anymore and complained about Toby in front of them.Â
She had no one else to vent to.Â
She couldn’t tell the girls in her class because they would laugh behind her back.Â
So she turned to the siblings instead.Â
Everyone could see how badly they treated Toby.Â
Once she started complaining, Maya instantly found common ground with her.Â
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The two of them opened up at the same time.Â
Every noon, they gathered together and vented about Toby, and it felt strangely satisfying.Â
“Oh right, Maya, a lot of girls gather in the activity room at noon for teatime and a vat of freshest gossip. Do you want to join us?” Annie asked as she looked at her.Â
After spending time here, Annie realized that Maya and Alfred didn’t seem to have many friends.Â
They spent most of their time drawing, staring off, or chatting quietly with her.Â
Maya’s eyes lit up. “Can I really come?”Â
“Of course,” Annie replied with a smile.Â
Alfred, who had been silent, lifted his head and looked at Maya with confusion. “You’re not staying with me?”Â
Before Maya could answer, Alfred already found a solution.Â
He turned to Annie with a calm and confident expression. “Then I’ll come to your activity room too.”Â
Annie smiled gently as she replied, “Sorry, Alfred, it’s all girls in there. You weren’t invited.” She was getting back at him for the boy’s mockery.Â
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