Semua Bab When Life Takes A Turn: Bab 281 - Bab 290

Just like that, there was no denying it—one of the car’s front tires was crushing something under its weight.Something that felt suspiciously human.At that moment, even someone as audacious as William Brown could feel a stab of fear in his heart.“W-What… Are we going to do now?” the driver said, his voice trembling from terror.The gears in William’s head turned at light speed. Honestly, he was just as panicked as the next guy. Fortunately for them, William was no stranger to the wilder side of life. He even came out of most situations with more resilience than the average Joe. It did not take him long to calm down and say, “Let’s just get out of the car and check if that person’s dead”“Oh…”Realistically, it was the only thing that the driver could do.Howard and the rest of the group still had no idea what had happened, but they got out of the car anyways. He asked William, “What’s the matter, Mr. Brown? Why did you stop the car?”“We ran into someone,” he replied, his ex

Despite being Faye’s cousin, Howard was undeterred. A rabid cur—that was what he was. How could Zayn ever extinguish the flames of his anger?All three of them could feel the bloodlust that Zayn emanated. At the end of the day, they were nothing more than just regular folk with unexceptional capabilities, so being trapped in the dark with a man hellbent on killing them was something out of a living nightmare. It would come as no surprise that even an unthreatening breeze could make their skins crawl.Howard was the first to break under Zayn’s gaze. With a shrill scream, he turned on his heels and fled for his life.It roused William from his stupor, and quickly, the man shouted at the top of his lungs, “Get him, all of you! Kill him—rip his mask off! This *sshole just can’t get enough of these mind games and Halloween spooks, huh? I wanna see who he really is!”All three of his bodyguards obeyed his command and lunged at Zayn in a coordinated attack. They were professionally-traine

“It’s okay now, hush. I beat them up and chased them away. You’re safe now,” Zayn cooed gently, rubbing Faye’s cheeks. He tore the tape off the woman’s lips.A cry, followed by a heartbreaking bawl sprung out of her mouth as soon as the gag was removed, and the distressed woman threw herself onto Zayn. She was whimpering like a little girl.Zayn had her in his arms as he patted her back gently, hushing her with a litany of soothing assurance. This was the first time he had ever seen Faye cry like this.“I was so terrified… God, I was so terrified…” she sobbed. As soon as her ropes were undone, she wrapped her arms around Zayn and squeezed him as tightly as she could. Zayn felt like he could not breathe.Faye was scared that he would disappear, so she held onto him for dear life, like a drowning woman clinging onto the last floating barrel out at the sea. She had never been so scared before, not even during that one time with Ethan—she had never been so fearful.Honestly, Faye had

Zayn was fortunate enough to have lied about being the chairman’s ‘friend’ to Faye prior. Otherwise, the cat would have been out of the bag. What a save!He went along with the convenient excuse and admitted, “Yes. Uh, I was in a hurry, so I borrowed his car.”“Oh,” she replied, nodding without any skepticism. Zayn breathed a sigh of relief.The car started to move, and after a journey filled with silence, they were back in the city in a matter of minutes.Faye was feeling anxious the whole ride. She was mostly excited though, as there were clearly other complex feelings being thrown into the mix. She summoned enough courage on multiple occasions throughout the trip to tell the chairman about her feelings, yet every time she turned to look at him, the very same courage was vaporized in an instant.She kept telling herself that she still had time—all the time in the world—to wait a little longer, just a little more…Zayn watched a very lovesick Faye and her furtive attempts to spy

Faye was like a bird freed from its shackles. Her feelings had been emptied like a pitcher; gone was the hesitation, gone was the conflict in her mind. Everything was crystal clear—her emotions flowed so naturally.“You might be shocked; I know you are. I’ve only met you three times, and I’m already irrevocably in love with you,” she said, passionately meeting Zayn’s eyes. Her gaze was softened by a gentleness that was previously unseen. “To be honest, ever since we’ve first met, your big heart... Your altruism… They left an impression on me that won’t ever go away. That was the darkest moment of my life. I was in despair; I was hapless, in pain, and I accepted my fate as a sacrifice. But you… You were the one who saved me. You showed me that there’s more to this world than monsters and men, that those knights in shiny armor really do exist!“My mom said it’s all an act—she said it’s the sort of masquerade that powerful people like yourself put on, so that naïve little girls like me