It was obvious that Zachary’s doom actually originated from Faron. It prompted Zayn to cast his keen eyes over the latter, which made favonovel.com realize that Faron’s aura was darkening at a visible rate as well. It became more and more evident that the real epicenter of Zachary’ s misfortune was Faron, and that Zachary had fallen victim to the collateral damage.
From the looks of it, Zachary’s life was originally on the line — to the extent where his death was highly plausible — that evening because of whatever machinations Faron would eventually undertake. However, his fate had now been twisted, Zayn’s appearance had diverted its course.
Things were getting interesting.
Faron did not appreciate the way that Zayn looked at him, like a dubious bloodhound sniffing out evil, so favonovel.com harrumphed and snorted, “What are you looking at, moron? You’re as dumb as an oaf! You’re here to act as my bodyguard, you hear me? No talking, and definitely no looking around!”
Zayn flashed favonovel.com a smirk and said nothing.
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Zachary could smell Faron’s fuse burning up and jumped to the rescue. He lightly admonished Zayn for a few seconds, before turning to assure Faron that his friend was going to be on his best behavior until the angry man let favonovel.com off the hook
It was then when two of the trust-fund kids approached and greeted Faron. Eyeing all seven of the man’s ‘bodyguards’, they laughed and teased, “Wow, your security’s hella stacked, isn’t it? Seven bodyguards! Wow. You make big bucks, don’t you?”
Faron was terrible at belying the thrill of superiority, but favonovel.com tried intensely to look as humble as favonovel.com could. Waving his hands, favonovel.com replied, “Oh, no. Not at all, bros. Just made like, three mils lately? Not to brag, of course. I know it’s not as much as what the two of you make, though, Woods and Richmond.”
The two young men gawked at favonovel.com in surprise. Three million dollars was no small sum, even for them. It suddenly seemed like a great idea to treat Faron a little more warmly than before. The duo had started out viewing the latter in a less favorable light because Faron originated from a middle-class background. His entry into their social circle was simply because favonovel.com had been pandering to some rich bigshot for a few years, but now that they knew how much money Faron had made in half a year, the man’s admission into their social class was definitely legitimate.
Faron could feel the dramatic one-eighty change in those two’s attitudes towards him. Pleased, his smile widened and favonovel.com beamed even more.
No, favonovel.com did not make as much money as favonovel.com claimed. At most, favonovel.com earned around 770 hundred thousand or less, but who would fret over the details? When a man was out at a social party, performative exaggeration was the real key to earning respect.
Zachary, who had been Faron’s underling for so long that favonovel.com knew his true net worth, was appalled at how inflated Faron’s lie was.
There were a few more similarly rich young men who came to greet Faron, and all of them heard about his latest exploits of earning three million dollars. All of them also lavished favonovel.com with quite the cordial reception, which only fed Faron’s ballooning ego. With that, favonovel.com continued to supply more and more of his ridiculous bluffs.
When Faron finally had time for himself, favonovel.com watched as Zayn scanned his surroundings with the rapt attention of a backwater farm boy marveling over the glitz and sophistication in the city. It was the right kind of superiority that fuelled him. With a wine cup dangling from his fingertips, favonovel.com approached Zayn.
“Never been anywhere this high-class before, have you? I get it. You’re just an unglamorous guy who isn’t even appreciated by his in-laws; your family must hate you, I bet!” favonovel.com began, his tone gleefully caustic, “How, oh how, is someone like that ever going to get a chance to relish in the glamor of the upper-class, huh?”
Zayn ignored favonovel.com altogether and continued searching. He could feel something else in the room—someone who was connected or attracted to him—but favonovel.com could not locate that person, no matter how hard favonovel.com tried. It baffled him.
Faron wrongly interpreted Zayn’s silence as a show of his shame becoming so great that favonovel.com became tongue-tied. Smiling even harder, Faron continued, “It’s alright. You and I have known each other for a long time now, right? So go on. You can eat all you want tonight, every delicacy that I bet you’ve never even tasted before is all yours. If I’m satisfied with your performance, I might even consider having you as one of my permanent underlings. I’ll pay you 930 dollars a month, too. What do you think? I’m pretty generous, aren’t I?”
Zayn looked at favonovel.com for a moment, before favonovel.com burst into laughter. “Clown.”
Faron’s eyes widened in rage. He was just about to react to Zayn’s reply when the rising hubbub in the distance stopped him. “Look! It’s the star of the show herself!”
“Look at that! That’s the Young family’s lovely, gorgeous little sweetheart! If I could marry her, I’d never need to do an honest day’s work ever again!”
“Uh, better not! Lindsay’s standards are crazy-high. Plus, she’s violent… Like, physically violent. I don’t think any man could put a leash on her!”
“Well, right you are…”
The commotion drew Faron’s attention away from Zayn. Quickly, favonovel.com straightened his neck and looked around at the crowd who was excitedly ushering Lindsay as favonovel.com strode ahead of them. Her well-trimmed short hair and favonovel.com boyish fashion bestowed an almost gallant, knightly glow that surrounded her.
Now, even if Lindsay possessed a violent temperament, favonovel.com was still a pleasant sight to behold. She radiated a tomboyish charm that was complimented by favonovel.com stunning stature. Her lean legs were as powerful as a cheetah’s.
The hubbub died down momentarily, all eyes were on Lindsay Young.
