With Maya’s Hammer to aid her, Maya doubted that anyone would make fun of her behind her back now.
Juan and Kyle looked at her disapprovingly. “Don’t you use it to hit people for real!” They warned, “Or they might get hurt. Even worse, they could end up in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.”
Maya glanced at them before stealing a quick glance in the direction of Nina’s room. With a small laugh, she tore off a piece of the hammer in her hand and stuffed it into her mouth.
“What the—”
The hammer was made of bread!
How did it look so much like the real thing? This was quite amazing.
“Maya, where did you get this from?”
Maya looked at them mysteriously and said in a low voice, “Daddy gave this to me! Don’t the both of you dare tell Nina about this! He even gave me a few more.”
Daddy?
Hmm…Daddy seemed to be a little biased.
Well—at least this would stop Nina from riling up her sister with those offending comments again in the near future.
Nicole prepared an entire table of delicious dishes. The four children gobbled up the food like starved baby wolves.
“Mommy, you make the best food! The food they make at the Musgrave Estate tastes pretty bland to me.”
“If you like my cooking so much, Mommy will cook for you every day.”
The four children nodded happily.
Maya sighed unhappily. “Ms. Sheila went back to help Uncle Davin with his work. She would have enjoyed your cooking if she were here!”
Nicole laughed silently to herself. Going back to help Davin Seet with his work? As if!
It was more likely that she had returned to keep a closer eye on him.
She was probably afraid that Davin might start flirting around with other girls in her absence.
However, it was good that Sheila had returned. Both Davin and the Seet Group needed an assistant urgently.
After dinner, the four children started to roll out their plans.
They dragged their props to the wall surrounding Daphne’s property, where they squatted down to wait.
Maya looked at the Bluetooth transmitter in Juan’s hand and asked anxiously, “Juan, do you think that bad woman could recognize my voice?”
“No. This transmitter has a voice-altering function. Even if Mommy and Daddy were to listen to this, they wouldn’t be able to tell that it’s you.”
Maya stuck out her tongue, feeling a little more assured.
If the bad woman realized that it was Maya’s voice cursing her out, she might give the little one a horrible beating.
“Let’s wait to watch the show!”
Juan put on a dark coat and snuck into the courtyard, as quiet as a mouse. He spotted an inconspicuous location and hid the Bluetooth device there before sneaking back out of the property.
He returned to the other children and gave them a thumbs-up sign to signal that all had gone well.
Nina and Maya turned to look at each other as they flicked the ‘on’ switch on the Bluetooth device, a smile appearing on their faces.
At the present moment, Daphne was sitting in her room, awaiting the good news.
The two maids whom she had sent to torment Nicole and the little beastlings had promised to stick those children into sacks and take them to her tonight.
She glanced at the clock. It was just about time.
If they managed to stick that wretched Nicole into a sack as well, that would be most wonderful.
She had to discipline that family of losers and take her rage out on them!
Here, a smile appeared on her face. Just as she raised her teacup to her lips, she suddenly heard someone calling her name from outside. “Daphne—”
Daphne froze in shock, wondering if she had heard wrongly. The voice belonged to that of a middle-aged woman, but aside from Lady Musgrave, there wasn’t another woman in the estate who dared to address her by her first name.
She ignored it and took another sip from her teacup.
“Daphne—Daphne—” The voice called again, this time even more loudly.
She turned to look at the maid who was tidying up the table next to her. “Did you hear that?”
The maid looked at her. “I think someone is calling you from the outside.”
So she hadn’t dreamt that up.
Daphne got up and arrived in her courtyard.
“Daphne—”
“Who’s that? Who’s calling me?”
The four children were watching her gleefully through a crack in the wall. When they saw Daphne come out of the house, they quickly activated another function in the Bluetooth speaker…
“Dastardly Daphne—”
“Deplorable Daphne—”
“Diabolical Daphne—”
“Disagreeable Daphne—”
Daphne looked around the courtyard, but there was nobody in sight. She roared angrily, “Who the hell is that? Come out and face me if you dare!”
Maya shook with silent laughter. She pressed the button on the device, and the mysterious voice sounded again—
“Daphne’s rotten heart will be sliced into pieces and chopped into tiny shreds! Add some pepper to it and—tada! Skewered rotten heart for dinner~”
