Chapter 18 - 18: Bad News

They studied well. In school, it was usual for people with good grades to get on with other hard-working students, and the opposite was also true. Bad students hung out with bad students. It was a common phenomenon. Kevin had good grades, and his friends were generally good students.

She did not speak but nodded slightly. It seemed that even though she had only been at school for one day, her fame had already spread. These two boys weren't in her class, and yet they could recognize her.

Bernard walked up to Kevin and said, with a look of a panic, "Bad news. Your cousin is here. I just saw him!"

As he spoke, a young man with a broad face entered and shouted, "What's the matter, Aunt L? Have you got the money?"

Sophia looked at the man, and she saw it was Linda Barber's nephew, Nicholas Sands. He was very large, in every sense of the word.

In the past, Linda used to call Nicholas every time she bullied Sophia and Kevin. Nicholas was tall and big, like a man mountain, and he was very frightening. He was two years older than Kevin. When Kevin had just started high school, he was in eleventh grade, and he always picked on Kevin. At that time, Sophia was still in a wheelchair, and there was nothing she could do. She had no choice but to tell Kevin to avoid him and not confront him.

Linda was even more arrogant when she saw Nicholas had arrived. Her tone got tougher. "Kevin, take out the money you're hiding. Sooner or later, the money will be mine, so there's no use holding on any longer, you're just making things harder for yourself. I'm too busy to stay here any longer."

Marcus couldn't take it anymore. He stepped forward and said in disbelief, "What are you doing? Sophia had such a hard life when she was alive and you never helped. Now she's died, and you don't even attend the funeral but come to ask for money before she's even in the ground. Don't you have any decency?"

Linda stared at Marcus angrily, "Who are you? What does our family have to do with you? When did you get the right to talk to me about my business?"

Marcus was too angry to form a reply, "You… you…"

Marcus was old and Sophia worried about his health. She quickly stepped forward to support him and helped him into a chair. She turned around and said coldly and clearly, "Get out."

Linda was startled. She glanced back at Nicholas and regained her courage. She said roughly, "Who do you think you are? Did you have any kind of upbringing? How dare you talk to your elders like that! It's none of your business. Get out of here and take the old man with you, or you will suffer."

Sophia replied as coolly as before, "How can you talk about 'upbringing' to me when you talk to Marcus like that? Oh and another thing, you talk about the inheritance law, you think you can get her legacy, do you? Go back and study it some more. How dare a person who has not fulfilled their duties as a relative talk about the right of succession? Even the doorman downstairs is more qualified than you to get something from Sophia!"

In order to win her father's inheritance case, she had memorized all the inheritance legislation. Linda had picked the wrong person to bully about inheritance law.

"What are you talking about? Nicholas, get this girl out of here." Linda said angrily.

Following her order, he strode toward Sophia.

Suddenly, he stopped as if hit by a thunderbolt, "Bo… Boss?"

With her new hairstyle and fashion choices, she looked very different from Sophia from before the accident. Nicholas hadn't recognized her at first. Now, as he looked at her properly, he broke into a cold sweat at once.

When Sophia heard him say that, she looked back through her memories and realized that Nicholas Sands had been beaten up by Sophia before. When Sophia was a freshman in high school, Nicholas had been in the same grade as her. Unhappy with her and her gang, he led several boys to fight the Sister Alliance. As a result, a group of boys was beaten up by Sophia, and Nicholas was too scared to come to school for two months.

She looked straight back at Nicholas, got up, and walked over to him. In a calm tone, she said, "I heard you bullied my little brother, is that true?"

"Bro… brother? Who? I wouldn't dare." Nicholas backed away like he had seen a ghost.

"Him!" Sophia pointed at Kevin.

Nicholas forced a smile, even uglier than a scowl out of the compost of his face, "I… Boss. I didn't know that. I won't go again. I'll get out of here right now. From now on, Kevin is my boss. I'll treat him really well. Boss, I'll definitely follow your orders. I'm sorry."

Sophia looked at Linda, "Take your aunt with you as you leave! No more trouble!"

"Ah?" Nicholas looked at Linda with some difficulty. He was afraid of Sophia, but he didn't want to mess with his aunt.

Linda glared at him. "Who do you listen to, boy? She's just a little girl. Why are you afraid of her? Aren't you good at fighting?"

"Didn't you hear me?" Sophia said coldly.

There was no emotion in her voice, but it was majestic.

Nicholas sweated and dared not hesitate any longer. He immediately ran to Linda and took her by the arm to leave.

If he angered his aunt, he would get a scold at most. But if he angered Sophia… He didn't want to imagine the consequences.

Linda bellowed as she struggled, "Kevin. Kevin, you boy! That money will be mine sooner or later! I won't give up! I'll be back!"

Her voice grew fainter and fainter, and finally, she could no longer be heard.