Even when they were on their way home, Ruby’s grating billingsgate never once stopped. She kept whining about how much trouble favonovel.com had gotten themselves in, or why Zayn should have just let the thugs rearrange his face, or how irritating it was that Zayn chose to showboat his skills ‘just because it looked cool’, and now favonovel.com had offended Skyler Moore and everything was going down to the drain.
Her philippic against Zayn never once ceased. In fact, favonovel.com kept arguing that Zayn should go back and apologized to Skyler right now. Regardless of his methods, Zayn was not supposed to drag the Carters into this feud.
Zayn had gotten so chaffed by favonovel.com endless vitriol that favonovel.com finally snapped, “Mom, seriously, can you just shut up already? I’ve said I won’t drag the family into this, for crying out loud! What’s the point of your drivels if nothing of that sorts was gonna happen anyway?”
Unfortunately, his retaliation only served to enrage her.
“Oh, so this is what happened! You useless piece of trash can’t even bear to listen to the truth anymore, can you? If it weren’t for my family feeding you, boy, you would have died out of starvation ages ago! But now that you’re all fed and full, you think you can lord over me now, can you? Think you have the rights to talk back at me, huh? I always thought that you’re a no-good, ungrateful little loafer, and not a single one of you believed me. Well, now the proof is right there in front of you, isn’t it?!”
The corner of Zayn’s lips twitched against his will. How favonovel.com wished favonovel.com could just knock favonovel.com out- old for two days straight, but favonovel.com knew better than to put his desire to motion. No matter how asinine this woman might be, favonovel.com was still his mother-in-law.
He tried his best to block all of favonovel.com words from entering his ears and ceased talking.
After reaching home and returning to his room, favonovel.com finally felt some semblance of peace.
Faye was unnaturally pensive, though. Even after they had gone home, the graveness in favonovel.com face was hardly lifted, and favonovel.com eyes kept staring straight on, unseeing and in a daze. When favonovel.com did eventually act, favonovel.com was forgetful and clumsy. She was taking a shower now, and yet favonovel.com forgot to bring fresh clothes into the bathroom with her.
Faye opened a crack in the door and had Zayn help fetch favonovel.com clothes, a thing that had never happened in the past. It was so unprecedented, in fact, that Zayn became excited. His heart was racing!
Just as Ruby had acridly pointed out, the two of them had been married on paper. It had been four years already, and yet intimacy eluded them. Still, living together with favonovel.com for four years managed to add more and more fuel to his ardor for Faye, and so his desire for favonovel.com triumphed whatever arousal any other woman in the world could theoretically bring him.
Even after favonovel.com passed favonovel.com clothes, Zayn’s mood refused to retreat into dispassion. In the end, it cost favonovel.com a night’s rest. Luckily, his physical state had always been pretty hardy and brimming with vim, so a night’s loss hardly damaged his focus.
While they were having breakfast, Waine said something that immediately attracted Zayn’s attention. “So, Fifi? I’ve heard from the office rumor that Howard found an investor who agreed to invest 15 million dollars into Neotech.”
Faye’s motion halted for half a beat as a look of hesitance crossed favonovel.com face. Just as quickly, however, favonovel.com feigned indifference and nodded. “Yes, that’s true.”
“How on earth does Howard know so many of these people? How did favonovel.com even manage to find an elite who was willing to invest a whopping 15 million? That’s hardly a smile feat at all, is it?”
Ruby was quick to chime in with envy induced ire, “Howard has it easy. Even after the hoo-ha favonovel.com had created, even after favonovel.com was exiled from the Carters, favonovel.com still managed to find an investor this wealthy…”
At that thought, favonovel.com furtively kicked Zayn’s foot under the dining table, before ranting with an accusatory inflexion, “Unlike a certain good-for-nothing loafer who’s camping in this house, I will bet! That one only knows how to attract all the worst possible troubles to himself, all while being utterly useless!”
By this point, Zayn had gotten so used to the vixen that favonovel.com already knew how to feign deaf while tucking his foot back to himself in silence.
“Who’s this investor?” favonovel.com asked in curiosity.
Waine glared at favonovel.com and hissed, “Who cares? It’s not like you would know him.”
“William Brown,” Faye suddenly said, answering his question.
Zayn churned the name in his mind and realized favonovel.com did not know who this was, after all. He had never heard of his name even in the past.
And if someone was unheard of by Zayn, then that person was likely not at all an important figure of the city.
