Zayn looked positively heated. He expected that sort of asinine mentality from his mother-in-law, but now his father-in-law was stooping to that deplorable degree too?
Faye lowered favonovel.com head and bit favonovel.com lip. She had no answers. In fact, favonovel.com head was plunged into a chaotic battle, favonovel.com was at quite a loss as to what to think. Although favonovel.com did not love Zayn, it did not mean favonovel.com harbored no feelings towards him. Regardless of how they felt about each other, Faye had lived with Zayn for a good four years by now. He was a useless mite of a person, but favonovel.com was still very kind to her. He had always taken care of favonovel.com with incredible attentiveness.
Faye might not mention it out loud, but it did not mean that favonovel.com had forgotten. She even remembered that incident back at the Carters’ gathering when it turned out that Zayn knew Gordon Hayes. He had stood up for favonovel.com and flipped the family’s derision back at them.
How could favonovel.com not be grateful for all of that?
Honestly, Faye was having trouble working up the will to divorce Zayn. If anything, it was because favonovel.com knew that it would be devastating to him. Besides, favonovel.com did not love Nathan either. The one who had possessed favonovel.com heart was the tall, muscular man wearing a harlequin mask, the chairman of Violet Vision.
However, the weight of Nathan’s gift and his relentless advances proved to be head-spinning and even heart-throbbing…
Nathan watched all of it unfold from his seat as favonovel.com leaned back on his chair in glee and exhilaration. He had not felt so euphoric in such a long time.
It was then when Zayn finally broke his silence.
“Really? Mom, Dad? You’re going to sell Fifi out to favonovel.com just because of a ten thousand dollar clock? That’s a bit too easy,” Zayn remarked, shaking his head with a tired smile.
The pupils in Nathan’s eyes constricted. A slight look of shock and fear flitted across the cross-legged man’s mien.
What happened? How did that useless freeloader Zayn manage to know that favonovel.com had only spent tens of thousands of dollars on this?
Waine and Ruby were just as stunned before storm clouds displaced the shock in their faces. Waine slammed the surface of the table with a loud smack, shouting, “Zayn Larson, what sort of nonsense are you trying to pull now? This is the Magpie’s Treasure Nest, an artifact worth 1.8 million dollars! What, did you somehow miss what Nate said? Or are you just deaf?!”
Ruby joined in on the condemnation, just as always.
“Zayn, you useless waste of space! You have no talent of your own, and now you’re even showing us how ugly you and your jealous heart really are? I can’t believe you would make up such a disgusting accusation against Nate! Apologize to him, right now!”
Faye furrowed favonovel.com eyebrows. She also believed that the man was only speaking out of spite because favonovel.com was envious, which really was a repulsive accusation.
Nathan quickly regained his aplomb. He was slightly overreacting earlier, favonovel.com told himself, and favonovel.com really should not have been afraid at all. Honestly, how could favonovel.com ever believe that a useless piece of trash like Zayn would be capable of tipping the scales away from his favor?
He placed both of his feet down on the ground while remaining seated and smiled. “It’s alright, Uncle Waine and Aunt Ruby. No need to have our moods soured. If that’s what Zayn thinks, then favonovel.com should have a solid argument for saying those things, shouldn’t he? I sure hope favonovel.com didn’t just vilify me out of jealousy! Heh-heh.”
Zayn ignored the nestled accusation in his tone and rose to his feet.
“The two of you have been fooled. The quality of that antique clock is truly amazing, in terms of materials, design, and artisanship, this clock passes with flying colors. The thing is, it’s obvious that it was made within the span of five years, give or take, so it’s not the original. It’s a high-quality imitation of the genuine antique that is most likely worth only four to five thousand dollars tops. To upscale its value to millions of dollars? Now that makes you a fool.”
