Return Of The Tycoon Billionaire

Chapter 5

Maya Cross sat at the far end corner of the class, her face shielded by the hoodie she wore over her uniform.

Her mind was lost in space, far from what the teacher was discussing.

At the sound of the school's closing hours bell.

She clutched her backpack, plugged her earbuds like she always does and made for the hallway.

Every conversation amongst her peers floated past her as she zombied through them all.

Right outside the school building, before she could place a foot outside.

Someone stumbled into her shoulder, causing her phone to crash against the floor and one of her earbuds fell off.

The person who crashed into her did not utter an apology for what she did 

Maya didn't mind, she bent to pick up her fallen items.

She stepped forward and waited for her driver to come pick her up.

The same person that rammed into her before came and repeated the same thing.

Not just her. But a couple girls in the same class as Maya.

“I saw you yesterday, Maya. With a man, who was he?”

Maya gripped her phone so tight that it cracked in her hand.

This was the reason she left her previous school, the news about her dad had messed up her high school life, she had to switch schools.

She tugged at her back pack handle.

“I don't know what you are talking about.”

She turned to face the other way, the girls wouldn't just let her be.

“Was that your dad?” Christiana gasped.

“I thought he was in prison or something.”

The other girls joined in the mockery and jabbed at Maya with their fingers 

Maya stiffened her body, her jaws clenched and her fist formed, but she didn't retariate.

“Heyy, back off.” 

Lucian showed up, shouting at the other girls.

The tempo of his voice made them stop at once.

He had been standing in front of the school, waiting to see her.

Maya's eyes shone as she took in Lucian in sweatshirt and a simple slippers.

“Dad.” She gasped

“What are you doing here?”

Lucian took her by the shoulders.

“Are they bullying you? We should report to the school principal.”

Maya swiped his hand like dirt off her body.

Her teeth clamped as she spoke through them

“Stay away from me, I don't want to have anything to do with you?”

Lucian swallowed the hard lump in his throat, his face turned sour, seeing how his daughter was being bullied by her mates.

He let her be, but first, he had to take care of those mean girls.

They still continued in their mocking giggles.

When Lucian glared hotly at them, their giggles turned into whimpers.

“You girls should be ashamed of yourself.” He roared in their faces.

Christiana's lips trembled, then she burst out crying very loud.

Her dad just pulled up on the driver and rushed out when he saw Christiana standing in front of a strange looking man in tears

“Christy, honey. What's going on?”

Lucian tried to explain what happened.

“She was mean to my daughter all I did was try to correct her-”

The words were barely out of Lucian's mouth before he felt the man's wrist connected to his jaw

The hit sent his head turning to the right.

Lucian could not bear being embarrassed in front of his child, not when he was protecting her.

He only came to see Maya, to explain to her that he's not the criminal she thinks he is.

Only to hear kids mocking her about him. He felt like he deserves her hatred towards him.

Not the harsh treatment from this man and his daughter.

Lucian swung his hand at the man, the man lost his stamina, did a twirl and landed face flat on the curb.

The school security came and pinned Lucian to the ground.

Maya was already on her phone making a call.

Lucian told the security that he was a parent like the man and they got into a little misunderstanding.

The security guard took one look at him, then at Daniel Crawford, Christiana's dad, who was being resuscitated.

“Then you'd have no problem telling that to the principal as well.”

Lucian sat right across the principal who gave him a look of disgust

“You say you are Maya's father?” 

Daniel Crawford had a tissue pressed to his nose, he sat a safe distance from Lucian

“I don't care who he is, he should be behind bars. Right now.”

Lucian gave his short evil chuckle again.

“You swung the first blow, I'm sure there are cameras in the school that captured that. Plus the part where your daughter bullied mine.”

The door to the principal’s office swung open.

Adriana and Vincent walked in, followed by a couple of policemen.

The principal quickly stood up on seeing the officers.

“Mrs Price, I'm sure it hasn't come to that, Mr Crawford and Mr, erm.”

“Cross, Lucian Cross.” Lucian helped her

“Yeah, and Mr Cross just had a tiny issue, it can be resolved amicably.”

Adriana stretched her hand and pointed at Lucian.

“That's him officers, make sure he is behind bars.”

Lucian jerked up, the chair he sat in fell backwards.

“Excuse me, you can't do that.”

“Ohh yes I can, if you hadn't come to see Maya, none of this would have happened. I have also put a restraining order on you.”

In a blink of an eye, Lucian's hands were cuffed behind him, head rammed into the principal's desk.

Adriana's cold face forced a smile at the principal.

“I'm so sorry for the scene, that's my ex husband Lucian Cross. A criminal, make sure he doesn't come to see Maya again.”

Lucian's struggle against the cops was futile.

Kids stared at him, phones were out taking shots and records of the man being led into the police vehicle.

For the first time in Lucian Cross' life, he didn't

have the power to do anything about his situation.

He has no memory of the last time in prison, but he sure as hell can't forget getting cuffed this time.