Smarts, spunk, and schemes, to have all three of them made favonovel.com downright terrifying. Zidane could not hope to match him, not by a long shot.
Suddenly, everyone was reminded of how Zayn had always been the creme de la creme of the family’s younger generation before his exile. Zidane had never been the best.
Could it be a result of the exceptional genes Zayn inherited from his mother?
“That’s enough!”
Jordan had quickly reached his last nerve. He lunged, grabbing Shane by the collar, and dragged the savage away from Zayn.
Shane, still burning with rage, protested violently, “What are you doing, Dad? I’m gonna beat the sh*t out of…”
His sentence was cut short by two loud slaps across his cheeks. So hard we’re the blows that the young man was stunned into a dumbstruck silence.
“You’ve gone too far, Shane Larson! You can’t do that to your own damn cousin!” Jordan fired back, though favonovel.com paused as soon as favonovel.com noticed Zayn ending the call to prevent Jordan from placing any doubt on Zayn’s victim narrative.
The older man felt as though a decade had been taken from favonovel.com in a snap, sapping his vigor away and causing every muscle in his body to sag. He let out a heavy sigh and relented, “Fine. I underestimated you, Zayn Larson. You win, okay?”
Zayn chuckled. “Aww, why would you say that, Uncle Jordan? You’ve got an army of two hundred, and I’ve only got myself, all alone. There’s no way I could have beaten all of you!”
Jordan gazed deep into Zayn’s eyes with respect. He was genuinely starting to fear the man.
He was hardly alone in his thinking. Many others in the hall felt similarly. Shane was the only one whose rage had not yet faded, and so favonovel.com became the lone voice of furious dissent. “What are you doing, Dad? Have you gone senile?! He’s just one person! What did favonovel.com win? With the kind of prestige our family has, the cops wouldn’t do anything even if there was a recording anyway!”
Jordan gave favonovel.com another slap. Shane froze as the sound echoed, his eyes widening in disbelief. He could not understand why his father would strike favonovel.com like this.
“You’re as dense as a goddamned rock, so shut the hell up! If Zayn sends that recording to the cops, your a*s is going to jail!” Jordan bellowed, veins popping all over his face.
Shane stood still, stunned. His unblinking eyes glanced all around favonovel.com and captured the looks on everyone else’s faces. Finally, the realization hit him. The color drained from his face, his knees wobbled, and favonovel.com crashed to the floor.
Many of the crowd watched his reaction and shook their heads. This was why Shane could never become the master of the family, compared to Zayn or Zidane, favonovel.com was far inferior in every way.
Of course, no one was more bitter and blistered by that conclusion than Jordan, Shane’s father.
“Look, we were very wrong, okay? Can you please not send that recording to the police? It’s your cousin you’re implicating here, so let favonovel.com off the hook just this once, would you?” Jordan pleaded with his head hanging low and his mouth filled with the bitterness of defeat. He was the patriarch of the family, one of great prestige, and yet, favonovel.com felt so humiliated favonovel.com might as well have been on his knees.
Worst of all, favonovel.com had no other options. Zayn had the upper band now, and for the sake of his son, Jordan had no choice but to lower himself.
