Chapter 46: Protective Daddy Acquires A New Enemy.

Leo drove his car to the school, and unlike the last time, he managed to keep his calm. He did not call Snow either as he didn’t want her to get worried. The young man parked the car outside the school. Then he got out and walked through the corridors, heading directly to the principal’s room.

When he was about to reach the place, Miss Verse intercepted him and Leo asked, "Where is Lily?"

Miss Verse replied, "She is inside the staff room."

Leo nodded and then asked, "Take me to see her, please."

Miss Verse could sense a cold vibe radiating from Leo’s body. The young teacher shivered and quickly took Leo to another wing where the staff room was located. The young man spotted a young man who was sitting next to a boy child with her neck raised high.

When this lady saw Leo walking over, she was surprised. After all, Leo was dressed in clean and crisp clothes for the meeting and he looked dashing. However, when she met his gaze, she stopped breathing for a second.

His aura was that cold. Instinctively she placed her hand around her child’s shoulder. Leo gazed at her and then at the boy beside her. Teacher Verse said, "This way, Sir."

She pushed open the door of the staff room, and Leo followed inside. As he did, Lily saw him and exclaimed, "Baba! UUU…"

Leo turned to his side, and Lily came rushing to his arms. He crouched down and surrounded her in his embrace. The young man closed his eyes and did not say anything and just patted her back as he calmed himself and his daughter. After a few pats, he said, "Baba is here, don’t worry. No one will hurt you now. Calm down my love."

His voice was as soft as a whisper and Verse who was listening to him from the side was not shocked to see this softness. She took a deep breath and Leo picked up Lily in his arms as he asked, "Lily, what happened? Tell me."

Lily sobbed and said, "The food.. Theo tried to snatch my tiffin. I didn’t agree and he said it was not good, and poopy. I told it was not. He teased me… and then threw the box.. on the ground."

Leo patted her back gently and asked, "What happened then?"

Although he sounded soft, Verse and the rest of the teachers could see that his eyes were getting cold. They all gulped in nervousness. People who could rein their emotions intimidated everyone around them.

Lily said, "I told him to say sorry, he pushed me."

Leo took a deep breath and asked, "Are you hurt?"

Lily showed him her elbow and said with teary eyes, "Baba, it hurts."

Leo saw that her elbow was red and swollen. He placed his hand on her elbow as he looked at Verse. The teacher hiccuped and said, "We had the in-house doctor check it. He said that she is fine, the trauma is from a strong impact."

Leo asked, "Where were you when all this happened?"

Verse was intimidated by the question and said, "I was helping another student with her tiffin. It all happened very quick, Sir. I apologize."

Lily said, "Miss Verse caught me when Theo pushed."

The chill in Leo’s eyes reduced a little and he asked, "Where are the parents of that student?"

Verse nodded and said, "Mrs. Elliot is sitting outside."

Leo nodded and asked, "What was her reaction to this whole thing?"

Verse gulped a mouthful, and Lily said, "She said I am a bad child."

The young man smiled and coaxed his sobbing daughter, before he said, "Miss Verse, did Lily lie?"

The lady shook her head and then Leo said, "Call them inside, let us hear what she has to say."

Verse went outside the staff room to call Mrs Elliot inside with her son Theo. Shortly after, the three of them came inside. Leo was still coaxing his daughter who buried her head in his neck. The young man wished to get her to a hospital directly but since the in-house daughter said that it was just simple blunt trauma he did make a big deal out of it, also Lily was moving the hand normally albeit some pain.

Mrs. Elliot took the lead, "So, you are the father of this girl. See, I want to make it clear that my Theo is not…"

Before she could say anything else, Leo looked at her with a gaze brimming with contempt and mockery. Just one gaze made the lady quite down and Leo took the lead, "I have Miss Verse as a witness. I am sure there are monitoring cameras inside the classroom as well. Do you mean to say that your son is innocent despite all this?"

Mrs. Elliot realized that she was indeed blurting nonsense, and tried to cover up, "This gentleman, such skirmish between children is obvious, after all, they are all young and dumb."


Leo shook his head and replied, "Your son might be dumb but not my daughter. You don’t know anything to make comments like this. I have never taught my daughter to fight with others. The teachers are a witness, how your son threw food, and mocked my daughter upon her denial to not share it.

Look at her arm, had something serious happened to her, I won’t have spared any of you."

In the last words, his voice was calm, but his eyes were raging. Mrs Elliot was blushing, after all, didn’t she know that her son was too spoiled. She said, "Sir, how about I compensate for the damage?"

Leo scoffed and said, "It is because of rich and uncaring parents like you that the younger generation grows up to be nothing but menace. Do you think I lack your petty money? If you could spend some time learning how to raise a child, you probably have a better offspring. However, this thing. Look at him, so casually standing over there and looking around haughtily. Do you really think that if you did not tell him the difference between right or wrong he would be doing any good to anyone?"

At this time the door of the staff room was pushed open and a middle-aged man walked in. He looked at the scene before he looked at Leo and said, "Sir, I understand that your daughter was hurt but aren’t you crossing a line here? What do you mean to say here exactly?"

Leo looked at the newcomer and asked, "So, I am guessing you must be the father?"

The man nodded and reported, "My name is Carlos Elliot. Theo is my younger son."

Theo latched himself to Carlos’s thigh and did not dare to look at Leo, because this uncle scared the shit out of him.

Leo nodded and asked, "Mister Elliot, do you know what your son did?"

Carlos shook his head and Leo replied, "Then how about Miss Verse leading you through the whole incident? Then we will talk."

Verse was quick, she knew that Leo was not a simple person, that day when Lily fell sick, and the next day new guidelines were issued were enough proof. So, she narrated the whole incident and to make sure that the Elliots could not raise any doubts, she played a video footage, which captured the two children cleanly.

Carlos Elliot clenched his fist, and looked at his son. He was a man, and no matter how much he loved his child, he could not shirk the responsibility now.

Leo looked at Carlos and said, "Mister Elliot, I have no enmity with you, and I understand that you love your child. However, similar to you, my daughter is my pride, joy, and life. I will never allow anyone to wrong her.

I may have taken this incident as a small bump, but the way your wife just defended your son. I cannot help but worry if your son will do something like this again."

Carlos Elliot took a deep breath and said, "I understand your concern. I will discipline him when we go back home."

As he said this, he looked at the boy, who was now holding on to his mother. At this moment, the principal walked in. Leo greeted her with a nod and Lily said, "Good afternoon, Madam Principal."

Carlos bowed his head slightly, with his wife, and saw that Theo did not say anything. He smacked the back of his head and said, "Greet the Principal. Have you not even learned this much?"

Theo shivered and greeted the lady before the Principal said, "I have been informed of what happened in complete detail. I will ask the teachers to look at him more closely and this will be a warning for Theo. Mister Elliot, this is Primus Elementary, we are pridefully the best school in the nation and I will not have anyone stain that position. If your son does something like this once more. I will directly expel him."

Carlos and his wife froze, before the man closed his eyes and sighed as he said, "Yes, madam. I understand. Thank you for your leniency."

Then he smacked the back of his son’s head and said, "Apologize to your classmate, you bear child. How dare you hurt a fellow student? I said."

Leo did not stop, how dare this kid harm his treasure. Theo stepped up and bowed his head as he said, "I am sorry, Lily. I shouldn’t have done those things. Please forgive me."

Lily looked at Theo and then she turned her head as she said, "Baba, my arm is hurting."

Leo looked at the boy and said, "Don’t do such things in the future."

The boy nodded meekly and Leo said, "Miss Verse, Madam Principal, I will take Lily home, she is hurt and seems to be shaken from the incident."

The two people nodded, and Carlos said, "Mister…"

Leo replied, "Cardinal."

Carlos did not think much about it and said, "Mister Cardinal, I apologize on my son’s behalf."

Leo nodded and left the school. However, Carlos Elliot thought, ’You dare to make me bow, I will show you what I can do, Cardinal.’

Leo did not know, but he had just acquired a new enemy.