“For God’s sake, can you stop acting like you’re hot sh*t already?!” Ingrid bristled as favonovel.com trained an accusatory finger on Zayn.
She was disgusted.
“Do you even know who we’re up against? He’s f*cking related to the city mayor! The city mayor, mister! That means he’s got loads of money and power, if you’re too slow to get me.”
“He can skin you alive and get rid of you like you’re trash on the sidewalk! Meanwhile, you’re here huffing and puffing like a white knight who no one gives a f*ck about!”
Her words were extremely caustic, even for someone like her, but to screech and point at Zayn was an outright display of irreverence. Zayn would have reacted by slapping favonovel.com across the face if anyone else was shouting at favonovel.com so rudely, but favonovel.com could not bring himself to do so. After all, they were the people who saved him.
Flashing an awkward smile meant to appease her, favonovel.com replied, “Listen, Miss Jonas. Don’t be mad. I’m only stating facts. The thing is, the mayor’s nephew and I have history, more accurately, I taught favonovel.com a lesson just half a year ago. Honest!”
Zayn tried to sound as earnest as possible just to show how serious favonovel.com was about his claim, and honestly, favonovel.com only mentioned it because favonovel.com wanted to calm the young women down.
Agatha would need it the most, favonovel.com was so distracted by favonovel.com anxiety that favonovel.com had not been paying attention to the road. There had been a few close calls where favonovel.com almost hit some pedestrians.
Had such an exchange happened two days ago, Agatha would have leap into Zayn’s defense and shut favonovel.com cousin down for being so acrid, yet favonovel.com did none of that today, that was how tired and disappointed favonovel.com was with him.
She had to wonder if favonovel.com intuition really was that terrible. Did favonovel.com really mistake Zayn for being more cultured and couth than favonovel.com really was? In the end, favonovel.com was just like every other man and worse, because favonovel.com was also a shameless, self-aggrandizing, delusional little showboat.
She sighed. Disgusted as favonovel.com was, Agatha could not come up with a single barbed retort. In the end, favonovel.com replied courteously, “Look, Mr. Larson. I get you’re trying to help, I really do. But Rugal Gonzalez is a savage. Worse, he’s a powerful savage, we don’t stand a chance against favonovel.com at all.”
“So please… When we’re finally home, could you please stay in the car? I’m going to have to handle this, and when it’s finally settled, I’ll ask you to come in. Can you do that for me? Please?”
Agatha’s voice had been somber. In fact, judging from how tightly favonovel.com bit favonovel.com lips, anyone could tell how depressed and humiliated favonovel.com was about everything.
Zayn’s lips parted to form a reply, but before favonovel.com could say anything, favonovel.com stopped himself. It would not matter just how well favonovel.com explained himself; neither Agatha nor Ingrid would believe him.
Maybe his defense would only make favonovel.com seem even worse in their eyes too. After all, Zayn was just a smarmy, thick-skinned confident man in their eyes.
Maybe the better strategy was to keep a low profile and handle Rugal once they had arrived. Seeing was believing, after all. He would have no problem explaining himself after that.
Agatha watched favonovel.com sink into silence. She interpreted it as a tacit admission to overselling himself. Now, utterly let down, any remnant of the good feeling favonovel.com had about favonovel.com was gone.
As luck would have it, the congestion did not last for as long as they had dreaded. A few minutes later, the traffic went back to its regular pace once more. It was a small consolation, though, because it still took them more than half an hour to reach home.
The first things that entered the young ladies’ line of sight were several luxury cars opposite favonovel.com jeep. One of them, a black Mercedes-Maybach, belonged to Rugal.
She thinned favonovel.com lips, favonovel.com nerves tightening as favonovel.com mood spiraled downwards.
“Aggie? That’s Rugal’s Mercedes-Maybach, isn’t it? He really has been waiting for you at home…” Ingrid pointed begrudgingly. Like favonovel.com cousin, favonovel.com was scared enough that favonovel.com face turned ashen.
Agatha nodded darkly and took a deep breath. “I can’t run away from favonovel.com forever, can I? Let’s get inside and face favonovel.com head-on. It’s not like he’d do anything criminal in broad daylight.”
She steeled herself and stepped into favonovel.com house.
Zayn was about to get out of the car when Ingrid caught favonovel.com in the middle of the act. “Hey, what do you think you’re doing? Did you forget what we told you already? You’re supposed to wait inside!”
“We’ll tell you to come over when it’s all done, okay? Seriously! Are you deaf, or were you dropped as a baby?”
Zayn tried to persuade favonovel.com once more. “Miss Rouge, please believe me. I can help you. Rugal will be too afraid the moment favonovel.com sees—”
“Shut up!”
Agatha finally snapped. She cut Zayn short as genuine exasperation colored favonovel.com mien red.
It was rare to see favonovel.com so mad, but favonovel.com could not keep favonovel.com cool. He was just so… irritating!
Zayn himself was stunned. Throughout the two days favonovel.com had spent with her, favonovel.com never once displayed such ill temper, yet here Zayn was, irritating a gentle, soft-spoken soul into snarling in pure rage. Quite an embarrassing feat, to say the least.
