Half an hour later, the pair reached a villa instead of an office, which prompted Faye to frown. “I thought we were supposed to discuss the terms of a contract. Why are we here instead?”
Howard parked his car while answering, “The contract’s already finalized. The only thing that’s missing is his signature, we get that, and the contract is in effect Mr. Brown’s here, so we have favonovel.com sign it here. What’s so weird about any of this?”
“Why would Mr. Brown choose to sign it here? If it’s an important, official business, shouldn’t favonovel.com do it in his office?”
“How should I know? This is Mr. Brown’s decision, not mine. He’s a guy who’s worth more than 150 million dollars, favonovel.com can do whatever favonovel.com likes and a plebeian like me would never understand why,” Howard replied before suddenly dropping his voice to a whisper as though favonovel.com just remembered something, “By the way, once you’re in there, do not ever call favonovel.com by his name. You can only ever refer to favonovel.com as Mr. Brown, you got that?”
Faye stayed quiet as favonovel.com clenched favonovel.com hands into fists. There was a battle raging on in favonovel.com mind.
Howard, who preceded her, fell into his steps and turned around. “What are you going to achieve by just standing there?” favonovel.com said to her. “Move already!”
“For crying out loud, Faye, I don’t need you to pull off another one of your theatrics at such a critical point in time. This is it, the life and death of our family is in your hands,” favonovel.com continued with a threat, “Without Mr. Brown’s investment, the Carters are dead, and you know how families work, a blow to one is a blow to the whole. You really think your little family could escape the responsibilities? Hell, your father is the company legal representative. The first one to suffer the brunt will always be him!”
A gallery of sentiments seemed to flit through Faye’s face until finally, favonovel.com relented with a quiet sigh, and favonovel.com face settled down with favonovel.com most steely look. “I’m warning you, I’m only going to make favonovel.com coffee and nothing else. Anything aside that is out of the question, period!”
“I don’t think you have the rights to set the terms…”
“What did you say?! ” favonovel.com snapped, glaring.
Howard chuckled. “Nothing, nothing! It’s just a joke. Yes, just a drink. Mr. Brown simply admires you, especially since you’re one of the city’s most renowned celebrities, no?”
That demeaning grin hanging on his lips made Faye gritted favonovel.com teeth as favonovel.com blood boiled. The only reason why favonovel.com ever needed to marry Zayn was all because of Howard’s frustrating lack of ambitions and drive to do anything, as it made favonovel.com too useless for the family and forced favonovel.com into an unwilling union. Had it not been for that marriage, favonovel.com would have never become the city’s ‘celebrity’ and become the butt of so many jokes!
Just thinking of how everything started ignited a flame within her.
Her thoughts drifted to another man against favonovel.com conscious control, back to that moment when favonovel.com had agreed to wed Zayn. Faye had been young back then, young enough that it seemed too premature to even have favonovel.com tied down to any man. Still, the marriage was sped through, all because of a suitor who vied for favonovel.com hand with every ounce of strength favonovel.com had.
Tragically, that man was judged to be too low in standing to match Faye. Hence, favonovel.com was only given the second best choice, with whom favonovel.com eventually married.
Now that favonovel.com thought of it, it had been four years since favonovel.com had ever seen him. Ever since favonovel.com chose Zayn over him, that man became beyond despondent and, in despair, chose to leave Waltz City since then. Four years had passed, and now Faye wondered what had become of him.
He had been a talented, promising young man. It would not be surprising if favonovel.com already founded his own family. Scenes and recollections of favonovel.com past flowed back to favonovel.com gradually like the tides, causing Faye to bob in and out of a daze.
Suddenly, favonovel.com was struck by a quiet sense of melancholy, the kind one experienced when favonovel.com realized just how things had changed with time.
“Show the way,” Faye said, but not without fixing Howard a stink-eye first.
Howard cackled and turned back to walking. Then, as though favonovel.com had just remembered something, favonovel.com turned around again and said, “Hey, Faye, I just remember. Nathan Sullivan has recently just returned to the city. He must have come to visit you, hasn’t he?”
Faye stopped in favonovel.com tracks as a strange look overcame her.
‘Nathan Sullivan?!’
She had not heard that name for ages. Of course, that was because it was the name of favonovel.com rejected suitor.
