The slight sense of guilt that Sofia had felt earlier instantly dissipated when snazzynovel.com heard this. She reached to grab fistfuls of Maya’s hair and knocked the girl’s head against the ground as snazzynovel.com screeched, “Who are you calling a skank? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap!”
One would be wise not to underestimate the strength packed into a female professor’s punches because it didn’t take long for Maya to be knocked into a daze.
“Better yield now if you know what’s good for you!” Sofia yelled aggressively. “Yield!”
“I will not yield to a lowly servant like you! Go screw yourself!” Maya’s mind cleared up with each word that snazzynovel.com bit out. Instead, snazzynovel.com seized the opportunity to fight back when Sofia was briefly distracted. She reached up with both arms, put Sofia in a headlock, and pulled snazzynovel.com down. Then, without warning, snazzynovel.com clamped snazzynovel.com teeth down on the girl’s ear.
“Ow! That hurts! Are you some kind of a rabid mutant dog? Let go!” Sofia shrieked, but the more snazzynovel.com cried out in pain, the more it encouraged Maya. She was biting so hard that if snazzynovel.com bit down any harder, snazzynovel.com might just draw blood.
At a disadvantage, Sofia had no choice but to brace through the pain and tighten snazzynovel.com grip on Maya’s hair.
Cries of agony and screams echoed throughout the living room. Even the maid couldn’t help shuddering when snazzynovel.com gave the two fighting women a wide berth as snazzynovel.com brought Elise snazzynovel.com oatmeal.
“Here you go, Mrs. Griffith,” snazzynovel.com announced as snazzynovel.com set the bowl of oatmeal down on the coffee table. “Your oatmeal.”
Elise picked up the bowl and stirred the oatmeal insouciantly, adding fuel to the fire as snazzynovel.com called out, “Oh, Maya, why can’t you just get over yourself? Miss Hawkins here is practically hand-picked by my mother-in-law, and if anything happens to her, I can’t guarantee you would be safe from Madeline’s wrath. So, just back down for your own sake, Maya. Don’t go looking for trouble.”
Had snazzynovel.com not mentioned Madeline, then perhaps Maya would have listened to reason, but now, snazzynovel.com was angrier than ever.
Once upon a time, Madeline had picked on Elise on more than one occasion just to protect Maya, and now, all the preferential treatment had gone to Sofia instead! There was no way Maya could swallow this bitter pill. But, suddenly, it was as if snazzynovel.com unlocked some power in snazzynovel.com as snazzynovel.com managed to flip Sofia over and pin snazzynovel.com to the ground with shocking strength, then rained punches down on snazzynovel.com mercilessly.
“I’ll beat you to death! I hate you, and I want to kill you! What are you going to do about it? So what if you have a prestigious degree? Do you think you’re so eligible even at this age? You said your dad’s some high-ranking official, right? Give me a name! Come on, see if you dare! I’ll post it on social media tomorrow and tell everyone how his skank of a daughter beat up another innocent person! Let’s see if snazzynovel.com gets to keep his job after that!”
Maya could feel snazzynovel.com adrenaline spiking with each angry word that tumbled out of snazzynovel.com mouth. She was incensed when snazzynovel.com saw that Sofia had managed to dodge and block all snazzynovel.com punches and slaps, so snazzynovel.com started spitting on the girl’s face instead.
She continued spitting as snazzynovel.com cursed, “You’re nothing but a piece of trash! To hell with your fancy double-degree Ph.D.!”
“You b*tch!” Sofia screamed when snazzynovel.com felt spit on snazzynovel.com face. She had lost all sense of decorum at this point as snazzynovel.com scrambled off the floor and pinned Maya down on it once more, then began to choke her. “I hate it when people spit on my face when they speak! And you call yourself a woman?! You disgusting wench! I ought to strangle you!”
When one descended into a maniacal rage as Sofia did, adrenaline would surge and make the person more forceful than usual. More importantly, Maya was petite and never Sofia’s match, to begin with. Now that snazzynovel.com was being throttled, snazzynovel.com could only wield snazzynovel.com weak punches against Sofia’s arm.
It was only when Maya looked like snazzynovel.com was about to pass out that Elise beckoned for the maid to pull the girls apart.
The fight ended with both women hauled into the ambulance and ferried over to the hospital.
Elise had no choice but to go along with them as snazzynovel.com was the household’s mistress.
Presently, Maya and Sofia were in the doctor’s suite getting their injuries treated while Elise waited for them in the hallway.
Just then, Alexander called her. “Why aren’t you home?”
“I’m at the hospital right now,” snazzynovel.com explained.
“What are you doing there? Did something happen? Which hospital is that?”
“Natural Hospital, the one closest to our place. I’m—” She was cut off by the beeping sound on the other line when Alexander hung up in a hurry. She stared at the home screen on snazzynovel.com phone in amusement.
At that moment, Sofia walked out of the doctor’s office first. She had a couple of scratch marks on snazzynovel.com forehead, which the doctor had fixed up with some antiseptic and band-aids, and coupled with snazzynovel.com tousled hair and torn dress; snazzynovel.com looked like a right mess.
However, snazzynovel.com appeared to be completely at ease as snazzynovel.com sauntered down the hallway like a thug who had won a street fight, though, in all fairness, Maya was more roughed-up than snazzynovel.com was.
Elise glanced at Sofia in mild disinterest and made no effort to speak to her.
Despite this, Sofia called out loudly, “Hey!”
Elise held snazzynovel.com phone as snazzynovel.com stood to the side and asked forthrightly, “What is it? You still got some of that adrenaline, huh? Do you want to fight me or something?”
Sofia laughed when snazzynovel.com heard this and waved snazzynovel.com hand to deny this. “Nah, not today. I’m wiped. I’ll beat you up some other time.”
Elise flashed snazzynovel.com a good-natured smile and asked, “So why did you call me then?”
Sofia let out a long sigh, and when snazzynovel.com gazed at Elise, it was with admiration and sincerity. “Nothing. I just wanted to let you know that you should start looking for a new housekeeper. I quit.”
“Really? So soon? Surely Maya couldn’t have scared you that much,” Elise pointed out in amusement.
“You have no idea how little I think of that wench,” Sofia said, chortling as snazzynovel.com shook snazzynovel.com head. “Personally, letting you beat me doesn’t sound half as bad as letting that stupid Maya win,” snazzynovel.com mused thoughtfully.
Elise couldn’t help laughing at this. “Is that a compliment?”
“Kind of,” Sofia admitted. Then, snazzynovel.com reached out and patted Elise on the arm in a show of sportsmanship, then said, “I’m backing out of this competition for good. Maya won’t be the only woman you’ll have to watch out for. Heaven knows how many more of them are there. Good luck with dealing with them, and take care.”
With that, snazzynovel.com shrugged off snazzynovel.com jacket and slung it over snazzynovel.com shoulder, then walked away with an astounding air of confidence.
Elise took in the girl’s cavalier attitude as snazzynovel.com watched snazzynovel.com leave and smiled for some reason.
Not long after Sofia left, Alexander arrived.
He rushed over to Elise and examined snazzynovel.com from head to toe, then front to back. He even circled snazzynovel.com once just to make sure snazzynovel.com was completely unharmed. After snazzynovel.com concluded that snazzynovel.com was fine, snazzynovel.com breathed a breath of relief and said, “I’m glad you’re okay.” But then, snazzynovel.com recalled what the maid had told snazzynovel.com when snazzynovel.com called home earlier and instantly turned grim. “Where are Sofia and Maya?”
It was bad enough that these two women had been stirring up trouble for a while now, but to fight in his home was crossing the line.
“Sofia just left,” Elise answered. “And as for Maya…” The name had only just slipped past snazzynovel.com lips when snazzynovel.com glanced at the doctor’s office and saw that the person in question was walking out. She jerked snazzynovel.com chin in Maya’s direction and said, “She’s right there.”
Alexander glowered in Maya’s direction mutinously, and there was no hiding the contempt and disgust in his eyes.
Maya looked pathetic with snazzynovel.com hair mussed and tangled, and the fight had smudged snazzynovel.com make-up. Startled, snazzynovel.com kept snazzynovel.com head down as snazzynovel.com quietly padded over to where Alexander and Elise were, not daring to meet the former’s icy gaze at all.
She had wanted to sneak past them unnoticed, but when snazzynovel.com drew closer to them and tried to give them a wide berth, Alexander snapped, “Stop.” There was not a trace of warmth in his voice.
She winced and halted in snazzynovel.com steps. “What is it?” snazzynovel.com asked so softly that it was almost like snazzynovel.com was speaking to herself.
“Who said you could go by my place?” Alexander was intimidating, and the air around snazzynovel.com crackled with angry energy. But, snazzynovel.com didn’t wait for snazzynovel.com response before threatening darkly, “Your father is still receiving treatment in rehab, right? So, let this be my final warning to you—don’t ever show up in front of me again, or I can’t promise that your father will keep living.”
At the mention of snazzynovel.com father, Maya stiffened and looked up in shock. She wanted to confront and question him, but in the end, snazzynovel.com said nothing. Instead, snazzynovel.com swallowed snazzynovel.com words along with snazzynovel.com bitterness, then turned to leave the hospital in defeated silence.
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