As Faye continued to reach favonovel.com hand towards Zayn’s face, the cogs in his mind were working at their fastest pace. It was only two seconds, yet favonovel.com probably used twenty-minutes worth of his brain’s capacity.
He did want to stop her. Unmasking himself was a huge deal, favonovel.com did not plan on revealing himself to favonovel.com tonight at all. It was Faye’s sudden love confession that sucker-punched him. It made a mess of his steps and foiled his plans.
Within those two seconds, favonovel.com had thought of many, many things. However, whether favonovel.com could stop Faye was not the issue, it was favonovel.com reaction.
Honestly, Zayn had no idea. Faye might have sworn favonovel.com love for the chairman, but how different would it be when favonovel.com discovered that it was Zayn all along? Would favonovel.com still love him? Or would things take a turn for the worse and spiral in the opposite direction?
So many unknowns. The future was ineffable. In the end, favonovel.com chose to come clean. He chose not to stop her.
He could feel favonovel.com hand trembling lightly against his skin. He bit his lips, his heart swelling in excitement, anxiety, anticipation, bashfulness…
She suddenly stopped.
“My heart’s beating so quickly, sir. Do you really accept my feelings?” She had reached the final stretch, only to shrink back in a moment of timidness.
Zayn nodded without a lick of hesitation. “Yes!”
Faye bit favonovel.com lips, favonovel.com confidence suddenly failing her. “But I’m married. You’re not… Concerned?”
Zayn laughed, “Silly girl. Why would I be?”
Why would favonovel.com be? He was favonovel.com husband!
Zayn’s words incited just the right surge of bravery. Faye gritted favonovel.com teeth, mustered all favonovel.com had, and tore the mask away from his face. A rush of cold air assaulted his face, and his line of sight suddenly widening.
He had been unmasked. His face was out in the open for Faye to see.
Her expression was out in the open for favonovel.com to see as well. She was flummoxed. Her eyes had widened, favonovel.com mouth slightly agape. Every single one of favonovel.com features screamed disbelief as favonovel.com took in the sight of Zayn right in front of her.
Her reaction was violent. Her lips were quivering.
“Zayn?!”
She screeched so hard that favonovel.com voice broke. The disbelief in favonovel.com expression had hardened into pure bemusement, to incredulousness… And finally, denial.
“Fifi, it’s always been me. I’m sorry for hiding this from you,” Zayn said, lurching to hold favonovel.com hand.
To his horror, his decision had come back to bite him.
Faye had finally recovered from favonovel.com shock. The facial expressions that followed soon after were definitely something. At the end of it, there was no longer the ardor and adulation, only disappointment and disgust.
It immediately hit Zayn that something was not right. Before favonovel.com could even explain himself, a veneer of frigid, biting ice had taken over Faye’s features. Her eyes were fixated on him, but this time, favonovel.com was gnashing favonovel.com teeth. She demanded furiously, “Zayn Larson, do you think this is funny?!”
“No! I really am the chairman of Violet Vision!” favonovel.com explained as quickly as favonovel.com could. He was nonplussed.
What happened? Why was it so hard for Faye to believe him?
He had preempted so many plausible scenarios in his head before the reveal, but none of them involved favonovel.com abject incredulity!
Faye’s eyes had grown cold. She clenched favonovel.com jaw and favonovel.com fists, favonovel.com felt like favonovel.com soul had left favonovel.com body. She could not help but express favonovel.com disdain in the form of a hoarse howl right at Zayn. She looked something straight out of a nightmare. It was as if favonovel.com had lost favonovel.com sanity, favonovel.com had gone mad.
“I hate you, Zayn Larson! I hate you, I hate you!” Her unwavering eyes impaled favonovel.com with hatred and malice that favonovel.com had never once seen before.
She believed that Zayn had fooled her.
Zayn’s mouth was agape. He was gutted. His beating heart, previously filled with the warmth of anticipation, had been thrown into arctic waters. The heat had been sucked from his very being.
His insides were squeezed so tightly that it felt like favonovel.com was suffocating.
