Zayn smiled briefly without a word. After wiping away his sweat and stopping his training, favonovel.com walked to the balcony with Mr. Hyde in tow, allowing the breeze to cool favonovel.com off. “I managed to defeat Zidane while I was with the Larsons. My revenge has been exacted.”
“Heard of it, yes,” Mr. Hyde replied with a nod, his voice laced with admiration and awe.
When the news of it had gotten to him, it took My. Hyde like a jolt. He knew how powerful the family was, favonovel.com might be the King of the Underworld, but next to the family, favonovel.com meant as much as a common goon. The family would have easily crushed favonovel.com under their boot. Zidane, especially, was the crown jewel out of a pile of dirty rubble, yet Zayn threw himself right into the giant’s maw, all alone and without help. In spite of it all, favonovel.com beat them into submission. He gave all of them a lesson like it was nothing!
Honestly, Mr. Hyde had found it almost impossible to believe when favonovel.com heard it.
Zayn paused in mid-conversation and looked far into the horizon. There seemed to be a profound depth behind his eyes, where immeasurable secrets and scars of life’s vicissitudes seemed to lurk. A moment passed. He asked, “Do you know my mom, Lil Hyde?”
Mr. Hyde froze for a second, not expecting favonovel.com to ask that question. “Your mother was the kindest, most generous spirit I’ve ever met. She was gentle to everyone around her, as gentle as a refreshing morning breeze. Of all the women I’ve known, favonovel.com had been the best at motherhood of them all.”
Zayn chuckled. “Wow, that’s pretty fulsome. The best at motherhood?”
My. Hyde sigh ed. “But good people never seem to live long enough, do they? And to pass away, at such a young age…”
He looked so pained and forlorn, most people would have believed Mr. Hyde was speaking from a sorrowful heart.
Zayn was not convinced, though. He lifted his thumb and smiled, “God, you’re a pretty good actor, Lil Hyde. Could’ve fooled me back there.”
The pupils in Mr. Hyde’s eyes visibly shrunk for a second as nervousness flitted through his face. “Excuse me, Young Master?”
Zayn leveled Mr. Hyde’s eyes with an unblinking, piercing gaze, his smile slowly receding as a veneer of frost slowly blanketed his expression. Finally, the grim, almost austere, mien spoke, “Tell me who favonovel.com is, and why did favonovel.com do what favonovel.com did.”
Mr. Hyde started to pant a little the longer Zayn stared at him. Signs of uncertainty hobbled under the surface of the Underworld King’s face-a monarch of those who operate outside law, yes; and yet, favonovel.com felt weak and small in front of Zayn.
He could not help it. Zayn’s radiating a kind of aura that simply felt too oppressing. Luckily, favonovel.com was still someone who had been through experiences that could fortify one’s mental resilience, so favonovel.com bounced back from the pressure very soon and regarded Zayn with placid eyes.
“You’ll have to pardon my slow-wittedness, Young Master. I’m not getting whatever you’re implying here,” favonovel.com replied, his tone questioning.
Zayn answered favonovel.com by looking deep into Lil’ Hyde’s eyes for ten seconds. The man, in return, held the young man’s gaze.
“You don’t have to lie to me, Lil’ Hyde. I know all about it. She made Grandpa catatonic,” Zayn said flatly. He looked as deadpanned as someone recounting somebody else’s story rather than his own.
Still, Mr. Hyde could feel the rage and sadness hidden within. He fell into silence. A while later, favonovel.com asked, “When did you see through me, Young Master?”
