She had been sulking from her heavy dispiritedness mere moments ago. As soon as she received Zayn’s call, she had become a completely different person. She was cheering in delight. Her overly-excited reaction startled Victor and Rachel. Victor pulled a long face as she scolded her, “Alexandra! What are you doing? It’s improper for a girl to shout and scuffle!”As a woman herself, Rachel saw something else. She could tell that her daughter was elated over Zayn’s call. She immediately realized that her daughter had truly fallen in love with Zayn. As a result, she tugged at Victor and threw him a meaningful glance so Victor would not scold Alexandra anymore. Victor realized it too from Rachel’s gaze. He looked like he was overwhelmed with emotion. As a father, Alexandra was his only daughter so he cherished her the most. His daughter’s marriage was more important to him than his career. Otherwise, he would have never searched for a good son-in-law like William for Alexandra. Howeve
After a moment of hesitation, Zayn sighed, “Alright, alright, this’ll be the last time. I’m not becoming your shield again. I’m fine as long as you won’t be embarrassed when my identity’s exposed.”Alexandra cheered and made a victory sign. “Thank you, Zayn! You’re the best!”Zayn chuckled wryly. “Sure, sure, you can stop sucking up to me. Let me know the address and time. I’ll be there tomorrow.”After Alexandra informed him of the details, he hung up the phone and started rubbing his throbbing temples. Alexandra was creating endless trouble for him.He had just told Sean that he would not be attending the engagement party in question. He wondered how Sean would think of him when he saw him tomorrow—not that it mattered. He would not get to maintain his low profile for very long now.Out of the blue, he wondered if Faye would be there tomorrow for the engagement party. She was Neotech’s chairman now, and she had the highest status out of all the Carters. If Faye attended the part
Alexandra looked the prettiest she had ever been today. She was dressed to the nines and she had dolled herself up as best as she could. She had been extremely opposed and repulsed by the engagement party initially, even deciding to make herself as ugly as possible—it would have been amazing if she was capable of just ruining the entire ceremony.Things were different now. Zayn was going to be there. It made her anticipate the event. She did not know why she felt that way. All she knew was that she was going to be all dressed up and beautiful when she was with Zayn. Oh, how Alexandra was looking forward to Zayn’s expression when he saw how pretty she was—he would be absolutely stupefied! Heh-heh.It was her engagement party after all. The Browns would never agree to the engagement for sure the moment they find out that Zayn was there!“Miss, you’re so pretty today. You’ll surely steal the limelight. Everyone will be completely charmed,” a maid said enviously as she helped Alexandra
Zayn wore a slight frown as he replied, “You got the wrong person. I’m not a waiter.”“What?” The fat man was skeptical. Pinching Zayn’s suit, he looked haughty and offended. “You aren’t a waiter? What? Are you a guest attending the engagement party?”Zayn was peeved by people like him the most. He did not understand his luck. He was just sitting around and someone just had to pick a fight with him. Did he look like a pushover?It was an important day for Alexandra tonight, so he did not want to stoop to the level of someone so insignificant. Turning around to leave, Zayn paid the man no mind, though it still came off as disrespectful.Provoked, the man grabbed Zayn and snapped, “Stop right here! How dare you disrespect me? Do you know who I am? A word from me and you can forget about ever making a living in Waltz City, you hear?!”He was being rather loud, immediately attracting the attention of those around them. In addition to his snarl, he was asked by one of his acquaintances
Zayn was surprised when he realized that it was Gordon, asking, “It’s you, Gordon?”Exactly. The person everyone addressed as Mr. Hayes was Gordon Hayes, who was decently famous in Waltz City too. He was not at Sean’s level at any capacity, but he was someone notable. He had also been gradually cleaning up his act and had begun the process to make his businesses as well as assets legal, so you could call him a business person to a certain extent.Gordon was thrilled that Zayn could still recognize him. His elation was barely concealable as he nodded fervently. “Yes, yes, sir. I thought you wouldn’t remember me!”When Gordon said that, his tone was unexpectedly tinged with a complaining whine, like a begrudging housewife.He could not afford to be blamed. Since Zayn told him that he would include him in a business worth over a hundred million dollars, Gordon had been keeping that in mind and had been staying in a good mood for three whole days! He thought that he had finally struck
Gordon was not dumb. It was pretty clear to him that those ignorant upstarts had offended Zayn. He frowned immediately, hints of his anger showing between his brows.He was a clever man. Like Sean, he was good at guessing the intentions of the other bigshots. Just based on Zayn’s initial reaction, he knew well that the former had no plans to let these men off the hook so easily.The upstarts heard Zayn, but they were too scared to halt their steps, continuing to march forwards as if they were none the wiser. They were hoping that they could get away by feigning oblivion.“Hold it right there!” Gordon would not give them the opportunity. He hollered right away with an icy and threatening tone.Zayn saw how servile they were to Gordon just now. if Gordon had enabled their behavior, he would have become the incompetent one instead. At Gordon's level, a simple gaze or an action, was all it took to understand things.Zayn wanted to teach the men a lesson.The uncouth men felt their li
Skye Long was scared witless. It took him a great deal of effort to get to where he was today. Earning 300 thousand dollars annually was great—he was welcomed warmly when he returned to his hometown in a Range Rover. People buttered him up, he felt like an elite. To ask him to give up a life so amazing and practically ruin it beyond repair, he would never be able to live with it!He did not doubt Gordon’s ability to do so. They lived in a law-abiding society, but if Gordon wanted him gone, Skye would have been removed without a trace at his command. Nothing would happen to Gordon because Gordon did not even have to break the law to do something like that. What was more, if Gordon had to address the young man in front of him as “Sir” dutifully, who knew what he was capable of doing to him.Hence, he kneeled down wholeheartedly without any hesitation. At his age, dignity and pride were nothing. What mattered the most was saving his *ss!Skye’s straightforward kneel made Zayn quite spe
That was how the situation came to be.However, an applause began to thunder from out of the blue. Clap, clap, clap… A mocking voice followed.“Zayn Larson, what an impressive performance! Making new money beg and down before you. Tsk, tsk, it must feel amazing being able to push your authority onto others!”The voice was shrill, the tone brimmed with scorn. It immediately captured the attention of many people.Zayn had barely been able to access his documents when someone new decided to interrupt him once again. Frowning deeply, he was further nettled when he looked up and saw who it was.Dressed dapperly from head to toe in luxury brands, the man who had approached Zayn was being escorted by a group of people. He looked at Zayn with derision, like he was looking at a clown.“Nathan Sullivan,” Zayn uttered lightly. There was no doubt about it—the person standing before him was none other than Nathan, who had also come to attend Alexandra’s engagement ceremony.“I see you still