Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 643

A week soon went by. Heather had been locking herself in her house and refused to come out even when Matthias came looking for her.

On this day, Heather was sitting at the dining table and her gaze intermittently landed on Everly. It was so obvious to the point that even the latter took notice of her gaze.

Everly tried to muster her courage multiple times to ask Heather the reason for looking at her so often but in the end, her courage dissipated and no words escaped her lips.

In the past week, the kidnapper had not contacted them, but Zayne had made a breakthrough in the investigation—he managed to discover the identity of the man whom Everly had met that day.

Heather was at Zayne’s temporary residence. In her hand was a photo of a man with an unfamiliar face; she couldn’t recognize him at all.

“You don’t know this person?” Zayne got straight to the point and asked.

“I have never met him before.” Heather had never thought that it would be a man that she did not know of. She had made many speculations before this, but she couldn’t figure out how Everly got in touch with a stranger.

“But that doesn’t necessarily mean that Everly doesn’t know him,” he replied as he stood off to one side. Zayne had yet to find out Everly’s relationship with this man, but he believed that he would soon make progress.

However, Heather disliked anybody badmouthing her family. “What do you mean?”

“Everly is a much more complicated person than you imagine—her social circle is quite bizarre.” Zayne couldn’t think of a better way to describe it other than the word ‘bizarre’.

“What do you mean?” Heather had never expected Everly would turn out to be a girl like this, which was totally different from what she imagined.

He took the photo from her hand. “Stop staring at the photo—this man is behind the new mysterious force in Bradfort City.” He directly revealed the truth to her to save her the effort of racking her brain to figure out his identity.

“As expected,” she muttered and scoffed.

“Looks like you are able to guess it right.” Zayne was glad because it showed that Heather’s brain was still working, at least.

“I can’t seem to figure out how Everly got herself involved with this force.” She was still clueless about it despite trying hard to understand the situation.

Zayne smiled and said nothing, which puzzled Heather even more. His attitude was so ambiguous and she found it rather irritating. In short, it made her want to punch his face.

“You are becoming more violent these days. Ever consider seeing a doctor?” Zayne muttered, able to guess her thoughts. As expected from the Great Detective—a mere glance was enough for him to tell what she was thinking.

“Shut up!” she roared. “You didn’t manage to find out Everly’s relationship with that man, did you?” There can be only two reasons for his attitude now—either he has everything in his hand or he has nothing at all.

“Ah, you figured it out,” he exaggerated.

Heather looked at him with a complex expression. After all that drama, it turned out that he knew nothing, yet he made her anxious for no reason.

“You tricked me again,” she snarled. He would probably give her a heart attack from extreme anger before the kidnappers managed to do so.

However, Zayne continued to tease her. “I almost can’t remember how cold and elegant you were before.”

“Shut up! Find out their relationship as soon as possible,” an angry Heather instructed. As she was Zayne’s client now, she felt that he had to listen to her orders.

“I believe that this matter is irrelevant, so why are you so concerned about it?” He played with the photo in his hand while looking at the handsome young man on it—he seemed quite young.

“I have a feeling that this matter has something to do with Everly.” It was merely a gut feeling, so Heather wasn’t sure if Everly really had anything to do with the case.

“It’s only a guess and you could be wrong,” he teased. After he had gotten used to how calm and composed Heather usually had been, he found the current ‘lively and vibrant’ Heather rather interesting.

“I trust my gut feeling. Anyway, follow up with this finding and I believe that you will find something about the kidnapping case.” She strongly believed in her intuition because it had helped her a great deal for many times.

“Okay, the customer is always right. Since you have given me an order, I will surely look into it,” he responded with a large grin.

“Don’t give me such a fake smile,” Heather muttered in disgust as she disliked his fake grin.

She knew that Zayne was a hypocrite and he would always wear a fake smile to mask his real thoughts. Truth be told, he was even worse than Matthias. Although he seemed harmless on the surface, he was actually full of wicked thoughts.

One shouldn’t be fooled by his identity as a renown detective and think that he wouldn’t do bad deeds. Back when he was young, he had been a man who never did anything good and all he did was evil deeds. If it wasn’t for the girl who had appeared in his life, he would have been sentenced to life in prison.

“Hattie, saying that makes me sad. Can’t you treat me more gently?” Zayne joked without any fear toward Heather.

“If you continue to speak like this, you will be dead soon.” Heather took out the dagger that she always carried with her, and it had a cold gleam to it as it reflected the sunlight that fell on it.