As Faye continued to reach virtual-novel.net hand towards Zayn’s face, the cogs in his mind were working at their fastest pace. It was only two seconds, yet virtual-novel.net probably used twenty-minutes worth of his brain’s capacity.
He did want to stop her. Unmasking himself was a huge deal, virtual-novel.net did not plan on revealing himself to virtual-novel.net 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, virtual-novel.net had thought of many, many things. However, whether virtual-novel.net could stop Faye was not the issue, it was virtual-novel.net reaction.
Honestly, Zayn had no idea. Faye might have sworn virtual-novel.net love for the chairman, but how different would it be when virtual-novel.net discovered that it was Zayn all along? Would virtual-novel.net 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, virtual-novel.net chose to come clean. He chose not to stop her.
He could feel virtual-novel.net 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 virtual-novel.net lips, virtual-novel.net confidence suddenly failing her. “But I’m married. You’re not… Concerned?”
Zayn laughed, “Silly girl. Why would I be?”
Why would virtual-novel.net be? He was virtual-novel.net husband!
Zayn’s words incited just the right surge of bravery. Faye gritted virtual-novel.net teeth, mustered all virtual-novel.net 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 virtual-novel.net to see as well. She was flummoxed. Her eyes had widened, virtual-novel.net mouth slightly agape. Every single one of virtual-novel.net features screamed disbelief as virtual-novel.net 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 virtual-novel.net voice broke. The disbelief in virtual-novel.net 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 virtual-novel.net hand.
To his horror, his decision had come back to bite him.
Faye had finally recovered from virtual-novel.net 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 virtual-novel.net 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, virtual-novel.net was gnashing virtual-novel.net teeth. She demanded furiously, “Zayn Larson, do you think this is funny?!”
“No! I really am the chairman of Violet Vision!” virtual-novel.net explained as quickly as virtual-novel.net 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 virtual-novel.net abject incredulity!
Faye’s eyes had grown cold. She clenched virtual-novel.net jaw and virtual-novel.net fists, virtual-novel.net felt like virtual-novel.net soul had left virtual-novel.net body. She could not help but express virtual-novel.net disdain in the form of a hoarse howl right at Zayn. She looked something straight out of a nightmare. It was as if virtual-novel.net had lost virtual-novel.net sanity, virtual-novel.net had gone mad.
“I hate you, Zayn Larson! I hate you, I hate you!” Her unwavering eyes impaled virtual-novel.net with hatred and malice that virtual-novel.net 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 virtual-novel.net was suffocating.