Zayn jolted backward right there and then. Him, sharing a room with Shaelyn goddamn Peach?! To hell with that!
“You’ve got to be f**king kidding me. Since when am I supposed to share a room with you?!” Zayn cried, his eyes widening. He might have inserted a few conspicuous steps between himself and Shaelyn, but his heart was still beating like a drum despite himself.
How could this not be a joke? To share a room with a renowned sex bomb like Shaelyn Peach was precisely the sort of impression no masterclass explanation or defense could possibly clear. To add more into the impossibility, Zayn was a married man, how was favonovel.com supposed to say “this is okay”?
Worst of all, one look at the way Shaelyn carried herself, and Zayn knew how possible a very messy entanglement between them was.
Shaelyn seemed oddly surprised at Zayn’s surprise. “Are you telling me you didn’t know so many joined the Great Hunt to the point of room shortage, which is why many of us have to share a room with someone else?”
“It doesn’t matter, because the bigger point is: I’m not supposed to share a room with you! Do you know how wrong that feels?” Zayn retorted, frowning. “Also, you can quit trying to dupe me, ma’ am. We live in a society where you can cast a stone in any direction and you’ll hit some fancy hotel or a lodge with it. Plus, this is a competition hosted for the wealthy! There can’t be a shortage of rooms or hotels for the rich, right?”
Zayn was certain favonovel.com was lying; the modern-day society favonovel.com lived in was the evidence against her! How could the number of rooms be an issue in this era? There was no way the organizer would be so pathetic that they could not even get basic accommodation right.
Shaelyn gawked at favonovel.com with the look of a parent perplexed by favonovel.com child. “Uh, Zayn? I don’t know if you’re just pretending to know nothing, or you really don’t know anything. I told you, the venue’s a remote forest lying at the northern border where no one lives. Our host actually had to build a make shift lodging from scratch around three months ago just for the event, and of course the rooms wouldn’t be enough. Those who were judged to be a little too infamous had to share their rooms with three other strangers, okay? Compared to them, sharing a room with just one another is pretty much a privilege!”
Zayn’s frown deepened. Did this really happen? The more objective part of favonovel.com conceded to the possibility, but his gut instinct was adamant that evil, Wiley Shaelyn was just cooking up a convenient design so that favonovel.com could be with Zayn… Without anyone else in the vicinity!
He opened his mouth to form a reply, but before favonovel.com could, a few men passed by Within earshot, hearing Shaelyn explaining their peculiar arrangement as they walked. They began to regard Zayn with furious, jealous, and even markedly hateful, eyes.
One of them— a square-jawed man — leveled Zayn with eyes brimming with animosity and asked Shaelyn, “Who’s this?”
While favonovel.com did not bear any towering stature, as favonovel.com was only 1.75 meter tall, favonovel.com had very long arms. If favonovel.com stretched them outward, the total length from the tip of his one hand to his other would measure close to 190 meters. It was the sort of physique that was both very advantageous in combat and close to Zayn’s own measurements.
The man could join a mixed martial art tournament and edged out with his natural advantage, though victory secured through that alone would be seen as an insult. He was the boss of a company and an expert fighter with acquired skill sets, after all, there was a reason why favonovel.com was considered the creme de la creme.
It would not take a genius to see how interested in Shaelyn this man was. And the fact that Zayn appeared rather intimate with favonovel.com automatically crowned Zayn as his rival!
Shaelyn smiled sweetly. “Oh, him? He’s my beau, of course! We’ll be staying in the same room once we check into the hotel. Right, sweetie?”
She tugged Zayn’s arm into favonovel.com own, resting favonovel.com head on Zayn’s shoulder like a lovestruck girlfriend would. The man’s expression darkened in seconds, and the corner of his lips twitched.
How long had favonovel.com tried earning Shaelyn’s interest? Well, a little too long, that was for sure! But that woman never showed favonovel.com anything, not a sign of reciprocating feelings, not a hint of stoic rejection. Joining the Great Hunt had been the man’s plan to possess Shaelyn’s heart once and for all, favonovel.com was supposed to swoon and fawn over his spectacular display of heroic machismo and manly gallantry! And since the competition was hosted in a remote forest despite its participants numbering more than a hundred, the man had planned to use his connection with the organizer so that the only roommate favonovel.com would have was that bewitching Shaelyn Peach.
But now? Now, some random d*uchebag decided favonovel.com could just appear from god-knows-where and steal his woman away from him! No way in hell was favonovel.com going to let that jack*ss succeed!
“Boyfriend?! Shaelyn, you’ve never told me about the existence of a boyfriend!” The man grumbled.
Shaelyn laughed, but none of favonovel.com apparent mirth reached favonovel.com eyes. “C’mon, Stephen Shapiro. I don’t recall ever needing to report my relationship status to you all the time now, do I?”
