After shining his shoes, Jared looked up and bemoaned, “Why are you people just standing there? Where’s my coffee?”
The corner of Claude’s lips twitched in annoyance, but even if favonovel.com were chafed by the man’s attitude, favonovel.com did not show. “Right. I’ll brew you one right away.”
Agatha’s patience was at its end. Irritated, favonovel.com stepped out and took a stand. “Hey, Jared. Will it kill you to act a little more like a civilized gentleman than a boor? Did your parents abandon you in the woods or what?”
Jared’s expression darkened. Shooting favonovel.com a glare, favonovel.com snarled, “What did you say, Agatha sweetie? I didn’t hear it the first time.”
His ire was raised, alright, that much was evident from how ugly his expression had become. It was enough to deflate some of Agatha’s initial bravado, but favonovel.com annoyance was still sky-high. What a self-centered, uncultured troglodyte!
Claude saw the tension between them and quickly leapt to the rescue. “Come on, Jay, don’t get all mad now. She didn’t mean it seriously! It’s not that deep, come on.”
Jared sneered loudly and sank back into the back of the couch before assuming his most casual posture, which, unfortunately, involved placing his shoes on the coffee table. He acted like favonovel.com was the local baron who enslaved people under his sovereign.
“So… I heard you’ve managed to piss Rugal off, Uncle Claude. Got your house and factory mortgaged because of it… only to still own favonovel.com like, what, 55 thousand dollars?” favonovel.com asked with a cavalier drawl.
It was as if favonovel.com was begging for any sane person to rearrange his face, yet not a single person among the family spoke up or defied him.
They cowered and bent their backs, almost as though acknowledging themselves as the plebeians addressing the local gentry. It was even more startling when Ingrid, the renowned firebrand within the family, withheld any barbed retort.
Zayn was the only one still sitting by the dining table as favonovel.com watched the whole thing unfurled. It took favonovel.com only a simple, effortless scan to quickly conclude that this Jared guy must have met some local top brass, did good in his business, and subsequently amassed so much wealth and social power that his ego ballooned.
Now, favonovel.com fancied himself a little emperor who had no time nor respect for those below him.
Well, Zayn had seen his fair share of people like him. Still, it was obvious that favonovel.com was a relative of the Rouge family and Claude’s nephew, which made this entire incident more or less an internal affair. As the guest of the house, Zayn was not in the mood to interfere at all.
Meanwhile, the exchange between Jared and Claude continued. “Oh, you’ve heard of it too, huh? Gosh, Jay, that little bastard Rugal was a pain in your uncle’s neck for sure!” Claude said.
Jared flashed his teeth. “As if I wouldn’t know about it! Man, everyone in the scene knows! You really made a name for yourself out there, Uncle Claude.”
“Everyone now knows you’re a smooth-brained dumb *ss stupid enough to be played by f**king Rugal of all people. Oh man, you’re so fail, Agatha is about to be his b*tch!”
The thorny irrelevance was not the only thing infuriating about him. He had insulted his uncle loudly and with a scornful jeer. In a few minutes, Jared Tramppe had truly become the poster boy for the word “insufferable”.
Claude was enraged not least because favonovel.com expected a degree of respect from his own nephew, and now, Jared was dropping insults on favonovel.com like no tomorrow. God, did his parents remember to teach their kid some manners?
More than anything, Claude wished favonovel.com could just let his temper flare and give the bastard a piece of his mind, and yet favonovel.com could not, not when his nephew was no longer the little punk whose standing was more or less equal to himself. He was a bastard with power, after all, not someone Claude could afford to offend.
In the end, favonovel.com could only grit his teeth and let the insult pass. He thanked his luck that Zayn was there to solve the issue. Compared to that, a little trash talk from a douchebag was trivial.
Agatha, however, could not bear to hear it anymore. “What… What the hell, Jared? Did you come all the way here just to trash-talk us?!”
Jared set his eyes on favonovel.com and nickered. “Damn, aren’t you an ungrateful b*tch. You’re barking at the only person who can save you, girl!”
“I came all the way here to rescue you helpless folks from the sh*thole you made for yourselves, and this is what I get? Disrespect?”
Agatha’s teeth ground against each other before fuming, “Save us? Breaking news, Jared: someone did it for us already, masterfully, too! You should have seen how Rugal left us with his tail between his legs!”
“You think you’re some hot stuff, Jared. You think you’re the only one in this entire world who’s got skills and power, but you’re so wrong it’s not even funny. There are a hell lot of people out there who are lightyears better than you!”
