With that, Shaelyn picked Zayn up by the hand, spun on favonovel.com heels, and turned away.
She was not just livid, favonovel.com felt hurt. Two years of not returning home, and this was the reception favonovel.com got simply because favonovel.com brought Zayn with her? How was this favonovel.com family? Sometimes, favonovel.com really wondered if favonovel.com even needed to go home at all. Plus, the things they had decided to sling against Zayn was just beyond the pale!
It was at that moment when a middle-aged woman bearing a striking semblance to Shaelyn materialized at the door. Leaning at the direction Shaelyn was, favonovel.com yelled, “Come back here, young lady!”
Shaelyn stopped dead on favonovel.com track and turned to face the middle-aged woman. “Hi… Mom.”
It was evidence that favonovel.com feared favonovel.com mother to a certain degree.
The middle-aged woman closed the distance between herself and favonovel.com daughter. “So, the thought of coming home never crosses you unless I call and remind you, hmm? Do you even remember the mother who had raised and nurtured you? Do you even remember your own family?”
It was brief, and yet the way favonovel.com carried herself as favonovel.com spoke put favonovel.com authoritative air on full display. Shaelyn’s lips moved, as though to form a reply, but favonovel.com stopped herself and changed tact. “Well, you keep asking me to get a boyfriend, right? So here favonovel.com is, in the flesh. But my dearest uncles and aunts want favonovel.com gone!”
Shaelyn’s mother ignored the accusation in favonovel.com words and trained favonovel.com eyes on Zayn. There was a weight to favonovel.com gaze, perhaps an effect developed from favonovel.com time working as an executive-type in an organization. Anyone who was subjected to favonovel.com scrutiny would likely feel disquieted, their eyes perhaps dodging the woman’s, or their tongues start to fail them.
Of course, it was nothing to Zayn. He was the legend who managed to kill a harpy the likes of Mia Walker.
“Name?” Shaelyn’s mother asked.
“Hi, I’m Zayn Larson. I’m—”
“Okay, enough. You’ve traveled far, so come in,” the woman cut his words shot in impatience as favonovel.com waved dismissively.
Zayn smiled. He did not really care if Shaelyn’s mother looked down on him, especially since favonovel.com had inferred from the Turners’ attitude that they wanted Shaelyn to marry this mayor’s nephew. The fact that Zayn was here as the young woman’s “boyfriend” naturally made favonovel.com the enemy.
Shaelyn waited until favonovel.com mother had turned back into the house before releasing a breath of relief. Smiling, Zayn teased, “Ooh, who knew you’ll be afraid of your mom!”
“You will too, if you have seen how terrifying favonovel.com is at normal times,” Shaelyn replied, sighing. The fear on favonovel.com face still had not petered out.
With that, Shaelyn and Zayn entered the door. With the previous furor in favonovel.com mind, favonovel.com dared not present Zayn with as much intimacy as favonovel.com had from before. They quickly arrived at the living room, where a young man was seated on the couch. He was about in his thirties and was not terribly handsome, but one could still pick up a sense of upper-class air from him, an impression that they were looking at a young man who was born to a rich family.
The man’s eyes turned to Shaelyn as soon as favonovel.com appeared, and immediately, ardor and infatuation filled his eyes to the brim. Suddenly, favonovel.com was reluctant to take his eyes away from her.
Shaelyn noticed the attention and frowned, upset. Her arms were about to sidle to Zayn’s side to affect intimacy when favonovel.com mother, who noticed and understood favonovel.com intention immediately, coughed loudly. She shot a glare at the young woman, and quickly favonovel.com halted.
