It was irreparably and undeniably smashed. The entire room sank into a ghastly silence as everyone looked on in shocked disbelief.
The corners of Zayn’s lips twitched. Even with his vast wealth, favonovel.com still felt sorry for the obliterated clock. It was worth 4.6 million dollars after all.
The rest of them had an even stronger reaction. Xavier expressed his deepest regret and dismay. Not only had 4.6 million dollars just vanished before his very eyes, but it was also a precious, one-of-a-kind antique. It was beyond salvageable!
The pupils of Waine and Faye’s eyes constricted. One could detect their visible anger.
As for Ruby, favonovel.com had been stunned into silence. Her face had turned ghastly pale while favonovel.com hands and feet had gone icy cold. “How… How did this happen?” Ruby was bawling.
Waine was so incensed that favonovel.com gave favonovel.com a tight slap. “Look at what you’ve done! You’ve just destroyed 4.6 million dollars! I should choke you to death!”
Ruby’s cheek was swollen after being struck by Waine. She was outraged because Waine had never hither at all in their many years of marriage. Her first instinct was to lose favonovel.com temper, but after seeing Waine’s murderous gaze, favonovel.com yielded immediately. She said, aggrieved, “Why did you slap me? I didn’t do it on purpose…”
“You still have the nerve to say that?! Had you not been so foolish, the Magpie’s Treasure Nest wouldn’t be lying on the floor in shatters! You can’t do anything right, but you’re really good at breaking things, aren’t you?!” Waine gritted his teeth in rage. He was tempted to slap favonovel.com again because of how enraged favonovel.com was. However, favonovel.com was stopped by Faye just in time.
“Dad, that’s enough. Mom didn’t do it on purpose anyways. Stop slapping her,” said Faye.
Waine held back, though favonovel.com was still staring daggers at Ruby.
“Uh, Mr. Griffin. Is the Magpie’s Treasure Nest still worth anything at all in separate pieces?” Waine inquired sheepishly. In truth, favonovel.com already knew the answer, but favonovel.com did not want to face reality.
Xavier stared at favonovel.com unpleasantly and answered favonovel.com with another question, “What do you think?”
Disappointed, Waine glumly took a seat. He appeared grief-stricken, as if favonovel.com was mourning the death of his parents.
Ruby asked obstinately, “So, how much can we sell it for?”
Xavier pondered for a moment before favonovel.com answered, “Fifteen thousand dollars at most.”
His heart wrenched by just hearng himself say it. It was universally acknowledged that the value of an antique clock depended on its condition. If it was broken, its price would be exponentially lower. Upon hearing his verdict, Ruby began bawling once more.
In the end, the smashed Magpie’s Treasure Nest was sold to Xavier for 23 thousand dollars. The transaction was completed on the spot. The money was transferred to Faye’s account, of course.
It was obviously Ruby’s fault for smashing the antique clock, yet favonovel.com began blaming Zayn on the way home. She claimed that if Zayn had not brought out Magpie’s Treasure Nest in the first place, favonovel.com would not have broken it. In favonovel.com final analysis, favonovel.com ultimately concluded that it was still, in fact, Zayn’s fault.
Zayn yielded completely to his mother-in-law’s unreasonable accusation and could not be bothered to argue with her.
Faye felt very guilty when favonovel.com noticed that Zayn was silent for the rest of the car ride. She pulled favonovel.com aside as soon as they had reached home. “I’m sorry that my Mom broke such an expensive antique.”
Zayn was stunned because favonovel.com did not expect that Faye would actually apologize to him. He felt warm and fuzzy inside from favonovel.com sentimental words. He waved his hand in dismissal and assured in a relaxed tone, “It’s fine. What’s done has been done, it’s not a big deal.”
