My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 627

Sophia had known Derek for several years now; it turned out that he had been pretending to be poor in school. The guy who couldn’t even afford to eat an extra piece of meat was actually Alex’s illegitimate son—he had been living so poorly!

Although he was an illegitimate child, he was still Alex’s illegitimate son. Their lifestyles were completely different!

Everyone was not interested in Alex’s illegitimate children. They were not afraid of Alex, let alone his illegitimate son.

Sophia slapped Ben so hard that he fainted on the spot.

“If I see you guys out here hanging with these thugs again, I’ll beat every single one of you!”

The students fled like scattered birds as they cried and ran around looking for their school bags. While Celine drove out all the students, she caught sight of a young, tender-looking pair of firm buttocks. She couldn’t help but slap the young man’s butt, and that young man fled with his backpack in fear.

Justin watched the whole scene in silence.

Celine was quite pleased with herself as she smirked at the boy’s direction. When she met with Justin’s cold gaze, she quickly wiped the smile off her face and put on a solemn look as she picked up the unconscious Ben and chucked him in the car, ready to dump him at the nearest police station they could find.

Meanwhile, everyone else was busy cleaning up the battle scene. They picked up all the school bags that were left behind.

Stanley picked up a paper and glanced at the score. “Hey, this idiot couldn’t even solve such a simple question!” he scoffed.

Sean picked up a school bag and exclaimed excitedly, “Look, Stan! There was an art student here!”

Rosie had lost her voice from crying so much and was dragged to the car by Sarah. They put her together with the unconscious Ben.

Meanwhile, Sophia helped Derek back to his feet. The 18-year-old boy was terrified with tears on his face.

She patted the dust off him. She seemed to be at a loss for words, but Ben spoke up first and said, “I didn’t mean to hide the truth from you, Sophia. I also didn’t mean to cheat you by freeloading off of you.”

Back then, Derek was often too poor to eat; Sophia would painfully share half of the only bun she had with him.

“I didn’t want to do it. My mother told me to be like my sister—she wanted me to study hard and please Alex. I’ve only seen my so-called father a few times since I was born, and he doesn’t even remember my name. I didn’t want people to know my relationship with Alex; I’d rather become an orphan. Since my mother did not care about me, I followed my uncle out into the streets…”

He wiped his tears as he spoke, and all the words that Sophia wanted to reprimand him with had vanished together with his tears.

Derek was a smart genius in school. When she was a senior in high school, she would look for him in the junior section to discuss subjects with him. Back then, Sophia couldn’t afford to buy the books she needed for her studies; she couldn’t even afford to buy a better dictionary that cost several hundred, and she was too embarrassed to ask the principal for money. Derek lied to her, telling Sophia that his family collected junk in front of the school. Every year, they would find a lot of books as well as a variety of informative reading materials.

Hence, Sophia would always look for Derek and asked for more books. He would give her a dozen different books every time, such as teaching aids, word cards, extracurricular reading, romance novels and dictionaries. She had saved a lot of books that were given to her by Derek, but she couldn’t bring them with her when she left.