Hiding Behind Her Superficiality by Kyla Olson

Chapter 685 What’s Going On?
Elspeth burst through the door and saw her son, who was usually a little gentleman,
pinning a boy’s head on the table with ferocious-looking eyes. “Say that again. What
do you mean?”
Although the boy he was pinning down was stout, he was tongue-tied under Damian’s
ferocious glare. Moreover, he never imagined that the frail-looking Damian would be
so strong that he couldn’t move an inch once he was under Damian’s grasp. “I’ve
already said it. Forget it if you didn’t hear it!”
“Say it one more time. Who’s a b*stard?” Damian growled loudly, the look in his eyes
terrifyingly cold.
The boy was used to bullying the weak and panicked in this situation. “I’m sorry, I—”
Damian felt slightly better upon hearing the apology and relaxed his grip on the bully
by just a smidge.
“What’s going on here? Why are you fighting?” Elspeth demanded sternly.
Meanwhile, when the kindergarten teacher was faced with such a scene, she was at a
loss for what to do and was paralyzed with shock. “What happened? Is there a
misunderstanding? You can talk with me about it.”
Even when the teacher and Elspeth had shown up, Damian showed no signs of
releasing the boy.
Judging from the boys’ behavior and the conversation Elspeth heard earlier, she
reckoned that an argument had broken out between them. It wasn’t difficult to put two
and two together that their fight was related to Damian’s birth. “Damian, let him go,”
she persuaded softly.
Damian’s eyes were bloodshot, filled with reluctance, but he still released the boy.
After all, he only had one kin, so he always listened to her.
“Tell me what happened.” Elspeth knew that he had been bullied because he would

have never started a fight with someone else if he wasn’t provoked. As Damian’s
mother, she was very confident about this.
“This is the boy who called me a b*stard without a father,” he answered tremulously,
feeling depressed at every mention of his father.
When she heard his tone, her initial idea to reprimand him immediately took a turn in
the opposite direction. Besides, she had never been a person to be messed with and
she would definitely never gang up with someone else when it came to her son. So,
she spun on her heel and she stared at the boy who called her son a b*stard with cold
indifference in her eyes. “Is he telling the truth? Did you say that?”
It never occurred to the little boy that Damian and his mother shared the same air of
ferocity when they turned icy and he gulped, so overwhelmed by her aura that he
couldn’t find the words to say. “But it’s true that he doesn’t have a father…”
“Even so, you can’t simply call someone else a b*stard. Is that a word you can use
carelessly?”
Despite the disdain in his heart, the little boy hung his head and admitted his mistake.
“I’m sorry. I realize my mistake now.”
It didn’t matter to him whether Damian was a b*stard or not; he simply didn’t like the
fact that Damian was so popular with everyone in the class, including the little girl
whom he fancied. In his little mind, he couldn’t figure out what other strengths Damian
had besides having a pretty face. So, he wanted to bully him, and since he couldn’t
pique Damian with anything else, this was the only topic he could use that would
spark a reaction from Damian.
Elspeth felt the anger in her chest dissipating upon hearing his apology. “You’d do well
to avoid saying such things in the future.”
Just when she was about to let the matter go, the little boy’s mother showed up. She
was a rather plump woman, wearing a pair of three-inch heels. It was clear she wasn’t
one for fashion considering the hideous and violent shade of red her dress was. Her
face was slapped with thick makeup and she even carried a pungent smell of
perfume.
When the boy’s mother noticed that Elspeth was here as well, she frowned in
annoyance as a hint of jealousy flashed over her eyes at the same time.
“I’ve merely been just a tad late, yet you guys dared to take this opportunity to walk all
over my son. You’re just doing this because he has nobody to support him, aren’t
you?” This wasn’t the first day that she found Elspeth an eyesore. Finally, she had
found an outlet for her frustrations today as she snarled, “I’m warning you, don’t even
think about bullying my son.” Then, she tugged her son behind herself and snapped at
Elspeth, “It’s you again? Why do you keep starting a fight with my son?”
Again? Elspeth turned to her in puzzlement. “What do you mean by that?”
A dark, sad light flashed past Damian’s eyes. “It’s not the first time that he has called
me a b*stard.”
Next to them, the teacher explained in embarrassment, “They usually have some
small disagreements, but they could always be settled…”
“Small disagreement? The kindergarten doesn’t care that my son is being humiliated
like this?” All of a sudden, Elspeth felt her anger explode and the air around her
turned bone-chilling cold.
“Miss Lynwood, it’s…” The teacher wanted to pacify the matter, but when she saw that