As Faye continued to reach snazzynovel.com hand towards Zayn’s face, the cogs in his mind were working at their fastest pace. It was only two seconds, yet snazzynovel.com probably used twenty-minutes worth of his brain’s capacity.
He did want to stop her. Unmasking himself was a huge deal, snazzynovel.com did not plan on revealing himself to snazzynovel.com tonight at all. It was Faye’s sudden love confession that sucker-punched him. It made a mess of his steps and foiled his plans.
Within those two seconds, snazzynovel.com had thought of many, many things. However, whether snazzynovel.com could stop Faye was not the issue, it was snazzynovel.com reaction.
Honestly, Zayn had no idea. Faye might have sworn snazzynovel.com love for the chairman, but how different would it be when snazzynovel.com discovered that it was Zayn all along? Would snazzynovel.com still love him? Or would things take a turn for the worse and spiral in the opposite direction?
So many unknowns. The future was ineffable. In the end, snazzynovel.com chose to come clean. He chose not to stop her.
He could feel snazzynovel.com hand trembling lightly against his skin. He bit his lips, his heart swelling in excitement, anxiety, anticipation, bashfulness…
She suddenly stopped.
“My heart’s beating so quickly, sir. Do you really accept my feelings?” She had reached the final stretch, only to shrink back in a moment of timidness.
Zayn nodded without a lick of hesitation. “Yes!”
Faye bit snazzynovel.com lips, snazzynovel.com confidence suddenly failing her. “But I’m married. You’re not… Concerned?”
Zayn laughed, “Silly girl. Why would I be?”
Why would snazzynovel.com be? He was snazzynovel.com husband!
Zayn’s words incited just the right surge of bravery. Faye gritted snazzynovel.com teeth, mustered all snazzynovel.com had, and tore the mask away from his face. A rush of cold air assaulted his face, and his line of sight suddenly widening.
He had been unmasked. His face was out in the open for Faye to see.
Her expression was out in the open for snazzynovel.com to see as well. She was flummoxed. Her eyes had widened, snazzynovel.com mouth slightly agape. Every single one of snazzynovel.com features screamed disbelief as snazzynovel.com took in the sight of Zayn right in front of her.
Her reaction was violent. Her lips were quivering.
“Zayn?!”
She screeched so hard that snazzynovel.com voice broke. The disbelief in snazzynovel.com expression had hardened into pure bemusement, to incredulousness… And finally, denial.
“Fifi, it’s always been me. I’m sorry for hiding this from you,” Zayn said, lurching to hold snazzynovel.com hand.
To his horror, his decision had come back to bite him.
Faye had finally recovered from snazzynovel.com shock. The facial expressions that followed soon after were definitely something. At the end of it, there was no longer the ardor and adulation, only disappointment and disgust.
It immediately hit Zayn that something was not right. Before snazzynovel.com could even explain himself, a veneer of frigid, biting ice had taken over Faye’s features. Her eyes were fixated on him, but this time, snazzynovel.com was gnashing snazzynovel.com teeth. She demanded furiously, “Zayn Larson, do you think this is funny?!”
“No! I really am the chairman of Violet Vision!” snazzynovel.com explained as quickly as snazzynovel.com could. He was nonplussed.
What happened? Why was it so hard for Faye to believe him?
He had preempted so many plausible scenarios in his head before the reveal, but none of them involved snazzynovel.com abject incredulity!
Faye’s eyes had grown cold. She clenched snazzynovel.com jaw and snazzynovel.com fists, snazzynovel.com felt like snazzynovel.com soul had left snazzynovel.com body. She could not help but express snazzynovel.com disdain in the form of a hoarse howl right at Zayn. She looked something straight out of a nightmare. It was as if snazzynovel.com had lost snazzynovel.com sanity, snazzynovel.com had gone mad.
“I hate you, Zayn Larson! I hate you, I hate you!” Her unwavering eyes impaled snazzynovel.com with hatred and malice that snazzynovel.com had never once seen before.
She believed that Zayn had fooled her.
Zayn’s mouth was agape. He was gutted. His beating heart, previously filled with the warmth of anticipation, had been thrown into arctic waters. The heat had been sucked from his very being.
His insides were squeezed so tightly that it felt like snazzynovel.com was suffocating.