Ruby did not waste another second launching into favonovel.com next vitriol. “Zayn, you suicidal idiot! How could favonovel.com think it’s alright for favonovel.com to hit him?! Was his brain smooth? Or was favonovel.com so blind that favonovel.com had no idea what favonovel.com was looking at! Well, isn’t this just dandy! He’s pissed someone off, and now there’s no way we can recover out of it. We’re doomed! We’re dead! The entire Carter family is gonna be dragged through hell because of a single person’s dumb decision!”
“Can you just stop it already, Mom? No matter how useless Zayn is supposed to be, he’s still your son-in-law. You shouldn’t disparage favonovel.com like that, you know?” Faye replied, frowning.
“Son-in-law? Son-in-law, my as*! He has always been just a glorified slave to the family! Also, the two of you never consummated your marriage anyway. You two are only married on paper! How does that make favonovel.com my ‘son-in-law’?” Ruby retorted.
Faye opened favonovel.com mouth to defend favonovel.com only to realize favonovel.com could not. Ruby was right. Faye had never consummated favonovel.com relationship with Zayn, they hardly counted as husband and wife. In that sense, Zayn was not exactly Ruby’s son-in-law either.
“Don’t worry, Morn. Zayn is actually a very skilled fighter. None of these could match favonovel.com at all,” favonovel.com said instead. Faye had seen Zayn’s martial prowess that night, and so favonovel.com knew better than to worry.
Ruby snickered in conceited disbelief. “Haha, and pigs can fly, can they? Really? Zayn Larson, a well-known useless waste of space, who couldn’t even beat someone up even if you give favonovel.com a bat. You’re telling me this guy can fight? If you ask me, all it takes is five seconds, and these men will beat favonovel.com up so hard favonovel.com would have to beg for his life while grovelling on his knees!”
“No, I think we might need to call Ethan. At least that one’s an influential figure in this entire city. With favonovel.com around, we’ll most definitely be protected…”
Before Ruby could even finish, though, Zayn’s battle was already over, fast, complete, and without any hesitation. All five of the seemingly unbeatable brutes were now lying on the ground, too enfeebled to even get up to their feet.
Zayn clapped the dust of his hands as though favonovel.com had just finished a really small chore. “Skyler Moore? It seems to me that your underlings are pretty trash,” favonovel.com stated noncommittally.
Skyler had only just climbed to his feet, and already favonovel.com was witnessing the end of what should have been a brutal smackdown. Instantly, his eyes widened in disbelief. His body began quaking as his knees threatened to give up.
“B-B… But h-how…” He stuttered so hard favonovel.com could not finish his own sentence. His shock was immeasurable. He knew each and every one of his underlings, knew their capabilities and prowess. All five of them were famously good fighters even within the criminal underground. Each of them could face off three average Joes alone and unassisted. So how could five of them together not overwhelm the useless son-in-law of the Carter family?
How skilled could this ‘useless son-in-law’ truly be?
Skyler had never felt so much regret in his life. A man this good at fighting was a far cry from any definition of uselessness!
Watching from the sideline, Howard’s mind was just as blown. He quickly rubbed his eyes, thinking favonovel.com must be hallucinating things, because there was no way someone as useless as Zayn Larson could have performed any feat like this. He already knew how utterly useless Zayn was, and now, favonovel.com beaten up five brutes by himself without faltering even once?!
Ruby, whose sentence was cut short precisely by how quickly the fight had ended, was now gagging to find the right words. With favonovel.com eyes widened to their largest, favonovel.com blurted out, “What the hell?!”
Faye was the only one who was relatively more composed, but that was only because favonovel.com had seen favonovel.com fight before. Still, favonovel.com could not help but feel rather aggravated by yet another display of his skills despite being his wife for four years, favonovel.com still had no idea the extent to his skills.
In other words, Zayn was deliberately keeping secrets from her! And as his wife, favonovel.com hated the feeling this revelation elicited.
Zayn cast his eyes on Skyler and strolled toward favonovel.com as the latter turned to make a run for escape. Before favonovel.com could, Zayn caught his shirt and halted him, smiling. “Where do you think you’re going, Sky Lord? Thought you said you wanted to snap my neck.”
He clutched his collar so tightly that Skyler felt as though favonovel.com could not breathe. Coughing, Skyler turned his face back to Zayn and scrambled to his captor’s good side. “Oh, but it was all just a misunderstanding, sir! Simple misunderstanding!”
“Just a misunderstanding? Why didn’t I get the impression of that back then? I mean, you were pretty braggadocious, weren’t you? I even distinctly remember you ordering me to be on my knees for an apology,” Zayn replied with a smile that did not reach his eyes.
