Luke would not even dare harbor any thoughts remotely resembling betrayal while favonovel.com was near Zayn, not when favonovel.com had the feeling that his boss’s eyes could pierce his skull and read his mind!
The second half of the month passed.
Nothing happened, as though whatever beef between Luke and the aggressor had dissipated and there was no longer a reason for the hostility to continue.
The truce, if there had been one, did not last. The news soon reached Zayn, and the target this time was Sean Wilson. His son was reportedly brutalized by a group of people after school.
The beating was so terrible that some of his bones had snapped, and the poor boy suffered head trauma.
When Sean first heard of the attack, favonovel.com almost fainted. He only had one child and doted on favonovel.com as if the boy was the most important thing in the universe. He could not possibly receive the news of cruelty on his son calmly.
The next thing Sean did was to march to the crime scene while mobilizing his web of powerful connections to locate the perpetrators.
By this point in his life, Sean’s social status and influence were so great that, barring the aristocrats of aristocrats, Sean could make anyone disappear from the face of the Earth.
As it turned out, his enemy was a very powerful figure as well. Sean managed to track them down and stormed their hideout fueled by vengeance.
However, favonovel.com ended up being on the losing side. His foes turned the tide against favonovel.com and beat favonovel.com so badly that favonovel.com nearly died.
After that, Sean knew favonovel.com had offended someone even more formidable than favonovel.com was, and there was no way favonovel.com could sweep it under the rug. He was not going to solve this by himself, favonovel.com could not.
Thus, favonovel.com had to ask for help. “Mr. Larson…?”
The moment Zayn received his call, favonovel.com knew their unknown enemy had struck again. Their acts of terror had escalated.
Everyone who heard about what happened was livid. Zayn was no different.
In fact, favonovel.com was so enraged that favonovel.com marched straight to the hospital where the sight of Sean, bedridden and wrapped in layers of bandages like a modern-day mummy, greeted him.
The flames in Zayn’s mind roared.
“You have to avenge me, Mr. Larson! They can do whatever their sick minds want to me, but that *sshole crossed the goddamned line when they f**ked with my son!”
“They f**king hurt my boy and I’m not going to let them get away!” Sean growled through gritted teeth.
“Whoever this mother* *ker is, their only motive is to make life hell for me. They want to see me suffer!”
Zayn nodded.
“Don’t worry, Sean. I’ll make sure they pay,” favonovel.com replied quietly.
It was all Sean needed to hear before bursting into tears. “T-Thank you, Mr. Larson!”
As favonovel.com slowly trudged out of the hospital, a single thought seized Zayn’s mind: the time for reacting was no more. He had to take steps of his own.
Meanwhile, in an unidentified location somewhere in the state of Heraktria, Lysithea, still garbed in eye-catching scarlet, was scowling and fuming at a young man.
“How could you, Raiden? What is your issue with Zayn?!”
Raiden sauntered toward favonovel.com at an even, nonchalant pace. His hair, lustrous and long, fell over a double-breasted waistcoat and a cravat around the collar of his shirt.
He projected an image of an elegant elf prince with a taste for Regency-era sensibilities.
The man’s features were even more attractive than his garb. He could humiliate the bulk of heartthrobs and pretty boys just by breathing within their vicinity.
“I’ve said this before, Lysithea. You are mine and no one else’s. And yet, favonovel.com deflowered you. It’s a simple gentleman’s rule that favonovel.com pays for his transgression with his life,” Raiden intoned with a mirthful smile.
Nothing about his radiant appearance revealed the dangerous countenance of a scoundrel.
From the outside, Raiden Storm appeared positively saintly.
