The legal representative of Neotech Co. was now Faye’s father, Waine. It did not help that the switch had only happened a few days prior. Waine agreed to take up the position when he was in a drunken stupor, after sharing a meal with Hector.There was definitely something suspicious about it!Faye was not a fool, in fact, she was wise beyond her years. It did not take her long to figure out that the switch had been made because Hector had realized that the company was in hot water, and that he would be at risk of being imprisoned if the company was unable to pay off their debt. As a result, he made it so Waine was the legal representative to the company instead to evade any form of liability!Waine was Hector’s biological brother. He was actually willing to throw his younger brother under the bus just like that!Faye was left feeling even more resentful and equally as demoralized.If familial love is supposed to feel like a warm embrace, why did Faye feel nothing but the agonizing
“Faye, it’s time to go home.”Zayn drove over to pick Faye up from work once his car had been repaired.Faye did not hear his call, but continued to walk ahead inattentively.Coincidentally, there happened to be a small pothole in her way, and as Faye was not paying attention to where she was walking, she stepped on it and stumbled forwards into a woman with a face caked full of makeup. The woman was in the middle of retouching her lipstick, so the collision had left a long streak of smudged lipstick from the impact.The woman was practically fuming with rage. She was going to give Faye a piece of her mind. “Watch where you’re going! Are you blind? Were you born without any eyes?”Faye was jolted back to reality by the screaming lady in front of her. She realized she had just landed herself in some deep trouble. Before things could get any worse, she hastily began to apologize, “I’m really sorry—I truly am! I was lost in thought so I wasn’t watching where I was walking. I bumped i
The woman who had a face full of makeup was ultimately apprehended by Zayn. She glared at Zayn scornfully. “Now who is this little motherf*ck*r, and how dare he stop me? You’re just asking for me to end you!”While she barked aggressively at Zayn, she raised a leg and aimed for his lower body as she ferociously tried to kick him in the b*lls. She had the reaction speed of no ordinary woman, and she was abnormally strong as well. It was apparent that this was because she was frequently involved in street brawls. Had Zayn not picked Faye up from work in advance, she would have been at a huge disadvantage.Zayn let out a rough grunt as he used his knees to shield the targeted area in advance. An audible thud resonated through the air. The woman kicked her legs up and down strenuously as she continued to assault Zayn’s knee. A wretched screech came out of her mouth as she hissed in pain, “Ouch, that f*ck*ng hurts! Are you asking for a death sentence—you’re already a dead man, do you hear
Hearing the crowd, Ruby was practically quivering from anger as she stared daggers at Zayn. “It’s you again, huh, you piece of trash?” she fumed under her breath. “How many times do you have to embarrass us, huh? You’ve gone and challenged the wrath of some underground kingpin? Why don’t you just keel over and die right now?”Zayn was speechless. How poor did his mother-in-law’s comprehension skills have to be in order to get to that conclusion? It was obvious that Faye was the one who provoked them!Not that he wanted to waste his time explaining something like that to a rock.Faye’s panic multiplied. “We should go!”“Go?” Charlotte echoed, her voice thick with derision. “Sure, just try and escape, I dare you. I know who the two of you are now—one of the Carter family’s little ladies and her infamously useless husband, huh? You two sure deserve each other. You can escape me, but don’t think you can escape us.”“Don’t… don’t take another step in our direction! If I feel like I’m i
Faye’s heart skipped a beat.Six large men walked out of the crowd led by a man with the pudgiest face she had ever seen, a big frame, and a very prominent beer belly. He looked to be about 200 pounds. His friends sported very similar physical attributes too, and all of them possessed large swathes of tattoos.It was telling that their lives revolved around the criminal underworld—especially so when they emanated the aura of a cutthroat. Many onlookers who had joined the crowd looked on fearfully as they carefully kept their distance between these newcomers and themselves. Those who had taken to snapping pictures and recording videos made sure to be a lot more subtle about their actions too.“Sky Lord, oh, you’re here! I’m saved!” Charlotte exclaimed and dove into Skyler Moore’s arms before bursting into audible sobs that were hideously dramatic. “I was so scared of being beaten to death by these thugs! Sniff, sniff…”Skyler patted the young woman on the back with his large hands a
Zayn’s expression darkened. This man was unbelievable! “What, you’re saying you’re above the law?”Skyler laughed. “Good, good! You’re catching on. This is my turf, dumbo, and I’m the boss around here I am the law!”He sounded so domineering when he asserted his rule that his five companions joined in on the boisterous cackles. In an instant, the air was filled with a terrible mire of lawless tyranny, causing many of the onlookers to back away in fear.“Hey, isn’t that Sky Lord? Why are you here?” Suddenly, a man had walked forward from the crowd of people.It was Howard Carter. He was looking at Skyler with pleasant surprise on his face.Skyler, too, was a bit bemused at his appearance. “Howard? Didn’t think I would see you here, punk.”Howard stepped forward and lit up a cigarette before passing it to Skyler. “What’s the matter, Sky Lord?”“Nah, nothing big. Just two blind dumb*sses provoking my baby girl. Of course, I’m gonna teach them a lesson!” he answered smugly.Seeing
Just as everyone was expecting Zayn to wet his pants in fear, he shocked them by showing no trace of fear. Instead, he flashed a smile.An unexpected word left his lips, and uncanny silence filled the air around them. The crowd widened their eyes and stared at Zayn in palpable shock. No one had thought that Zayn would not only refuse to beg for mercy, but also insult Skyler to his face.If this was not an act of suicide, then what was? Skyler was the leader of a gang—he had wealth, power, and manpower. Any businessman would know better than to raise his ire, but this sorry excuse of a son-in-law had the b*lls to call him a buffoon?!The muscles around Skyler’s lips twitched. His face was visibly turning red.Ruby almost fainted at the height of her fury. Was Zayn a straight-up moron? How could he have looked at the situation that they were in and thought it was a good idea to say something like that?! He had doomed them—the idiot had doomed them all to death!Ruby was beyond livid
Ruby did not waste another second launching into her next vitriol. “Zayn, you suicidal idiot! How could he think it’s alright for him to hit him?! Was his brain smooth? Or was he so blind that he had no idea what he was looking at! Well, isn’t this just dandy! He’s pissed someone off, and now there’s no way we can recover out of it. We’re doomed! We’re dead! The entire Carter family is gonna be dragged through hell because of a single person’s dumb decision!”“Can you just stop it already, Mom? No matter how useless Zayn is supposed to be, he’s still your son-in-law. You shouldn’t disparage him like that, you know?” Faye replied, frowning.“Son-in-law? Son-in-law, my as*! He has always been just a glorified slave to the family! Also, the two of you never consummated your marriage anyway. You two are only married on paper! How does that make him my ‘son-in-law’?” Ruby retorted.Faye opened her mouth to defend him—only to realize she could not. Ruby was right. Faye had never consummat