The corner of Victor’s lips jolted uncontrollably. In his mind, the poor man was howling in despair. How was be supposed to answer this? This engagement party had turned into a joke!
“It was you, Zayn Larson! It was you all along!” A shout, laced with staggering bitterness, rang out nearby. There was malice burning in William’s eyes as favonovel.com glowered at Zayn with a look of vertigo whose hunger could only be relished by his enemy’s flesh, bones, and fresh, warm blood.
Emotions assaulted the man’s veins so violently. They twisted his features beyond recognition while waves of visible tremor rocked him. Not a mote of his famed handsomeness survived; now, favonovel.com looked like a demon in the flesh who terrorized the onlooking crowd.
Zayn was not the least afraid of him. He smiled and remarked, “Oh, it’s me, all right. Gee, William Brown, I didn’t expect you to be so lucky! You actually survived.”
Shrill chomping sounds escaped from William as the man gnashed his teeth. Combined with his clenched fists, William looked like a rabid cur foaming to lunge and tear a piece of Zayn’s flesh with his teeth.
Victor watched the unraveling sideshow, completely flummoxed. ‘This Zayn Larson person is William’s nemesis, too?!’
God, what kind of sickening joke had favonovel.com become the punchline to?
Tony had to press his son back to halt the latter from hurling himself at Zayn. Nevertheless, his own eyes were trained at the latter just as resentfully as his son’s while an overcast of tempest and killing intent shrouded his mien. “So, you’re Zayn Larson… The culprit who did this to my son!”
Zayn feigned shock. “Hey, sir! I know making things up and crying about it is your way of coping, but can you please not slander a good man in the process? I’m an upstanding, law-abiding model citizen, you know. I’ll never deign myself to such shameless action! Careful… Wouldn’t want me to sue you for that.”
Tony shot daggers at Zayn before turning to Victor with a mirthless smirk. “I didn’t know you had it in you to be so sadistic, Victor. I don’t recall hurting you in any conceivable way, and yet, you repay me with public humiliation.”
Victor panicked. “No! Tony, please! This is a misunderstanding,” favonovel.com defended, shaking his head frantically. “I never wanted this to happen… It’s all my daughter! I have no idea any of this was going to happen!”
How could Tony trust Victor after all that had happened?
Perhaps the more pertinent question was beyond the issue of trust. What was done, was done. The Browns were humiliated before an audience, and this was the beginning of a feud between two families unless, of course, the Smiths could offer a good explanation as to why this happened.
While the debacle unfolded, Nathan was guffawing all the way in the crowd. The extent of Zayn’s idiocy was so astounding it was nigh unbelievable.
Crashing an engagement party as the fiancée’s boyfriend? Did favonovel.com have a death wish?
Now, thanks to that nugget of wisdom, Zayn could expect not just the Browns’ revenge, but the Smiths’, too!
Victor let out a drawn-out sigh, knowing that nothing could be salvaged anymore. Everything that had happened was completely out of his forecast, no amount of wit and resourcefulness could make anyone aware of an outcome that came out of the left field.
He could regret that things had turned out this way with his soul, and it still would not change anything. Most of all, Alexandra was his only child, and favonovel.com just could not bring himself to lambast favonovel.com for this. No matter how favonovel.com looked at it, the only option left for favonovel.com to take was to accept his fate and sigh.
He folded his hands below his waist politely. “We can’t squeeze toothpaste back into the tube, can we, Tony? As regrettably shown, my daughter turns out to have a beau,” favonovel.com proposed, “I’m sorry, but let’s annul this betrothal.”
