He'd never harm her, ever, until he broke her heart, and that would happen eventually, and there wasn't a damned thing he could do to stop that. He shook his head. "That's enough Miss Corner." He stopped his daughter as she tried to remind him that he didn't need to worry, and in a way she was right, Hugo was not his main fear for his daughter these days, but he was one of many smaller worries he still carried around as her father.
"Don't the both of you have places you ought to be right now? Other than loitering around in hallways, or staging foot races - this is still a school and not a playground, no matter what your father may have told you." He gave Hugo a very pointed look, oh he would have loved to hex that boy six ways to Sunday, but Michael reminded himself that he was a teacher.