Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 668

Although Leon was aware that Heather had been privately keeping in contact with Zayne recently, he had no idea where Zayne currently was. While they were on the way, Leon stared at the scenery outside with curiosity and he noticed that the route they took was further away from town.

The route they took looked much more remote than his mansion. In fact, there were plenty of places to hide in the outskirts of Bradfort City and it certainly wasn’t an easy feat to locate someone.

“This is quite secluded and not many people would make their way here.” Leon wondered why he had never chosen to search for a place here to stay, especially when he loved the style of houses here.

“You’ve been giving comments all this while. Don’t you find it amusing?” Heather had to bear with his verbosity throughout the whole journey. How can he come up with many flighty thoughts all of a sudden?!

He laughed out loud. “I didn’t want you to feel awkward.” Previously, when they were together, there was no awkward moment at all despite not saying a word to each other. However, the current awkwardness was quite hard to bear.

“By the way, don’t you think that your incessant chatter is rather awkward as well?” As she was still upset with Leon, she vented at him as well.

Meanwhile, upon hearing Heather’s words, he was rather abashed. He scratched the back of his head while looking quite lost. It seemed that she was the only one who would be able to render him into such a state. However, as he hadn’t realized his problem up until now, it made her annoyed.

“Heather, does Zayne live in this area?” Leon tried to change the topic as he surveyed the area while standing at the entrance of the housing estate.

“Hey! You’ll be mistaken as a thief by the security guards if you keep behaving like that!” Heather approached him and tugged on his sleeve because she could no longer tolerate his embarrassing behavior.

Meanwhile, Leon stared innocently at Heather. “Heather, I didn’t even do anything!” He reckoned that his good looks would give him indemnity where obviously no one would regard him as a thief.

She shot a disdainful look at him. “If you have a mirror in front of you now, I’m sure you’d be able to see your furtive look right now!”

Leon immediately reached out for his phone and switched on his front-facing camera. Then, he stared at his reflection on the phone. I’m as good-looking as before! There’s no hint of furtiveness! He was quite keen to talk to her about life in general.

However, Heather had already left without making a sound. She walked in front and left him trailing far behind her. Seeing this, he hurriedly rushed up to her. “Heather, wait up! Don’t leave me behind!”

She didn’t even bother to turn around to look at him. Luckily, his legs were long enough for him to quickly catch up with her. When he was about to say something, she interrupted, “Shh! Keep quiet!”

Leon hadn’t even said anything, but upon hearing Heather’s words, he was forced to swallow his words. He noticed that she shuffled around each block, but he wasn’t sure what she was trying to achieve. “Heather, do you know which block he’s staying at?” he asked with curiosity. She’s behaving in such a strange manner. Surely, she has to explain what’s going on to me!

“I’m just worried that we have been followed here by someone,” Heather carefully replied as she had enough of being trailed by the press.

In fact, she felt quite frustrated in regard to her whereabouts being tracked. Why am I always followed by someone or secretly photographed each time I have some private matters to deal with?!

“Heather, what you’re doing right now is useless,” he replied solemnly.

Trailing after a person was a skill and if someone was adept at it, they definitely would not be confused by Heather’s current manner of throwing them off. Leon patted her on the back and sincerely advised, “Heather, the other party is hiding behind us while we’re out in the open. It’s easy to overcome any outright moves directed at us, but it’s the tactics behind our backs that we can’t prevent. We should just behave naturally and head inside to see Zayne.”

Heather stared at him with caution. He sounds quite wise. Shortly after that, she nodded at him. “Alright then, let’s go in to see Zayne right away.”

Leon felt quite relieved to hear her words. Phew, finally, there’s no need to continue walking around in circles! She seems to be quite foolish lately.

She led him to the first block. Zayne was a big fan of the number one, so he chose to stay at block one and his apartment number was 101. Because of that, she had previously made snide remarks about it.

Upon arriving at Zayne’s doorstep, Leon had slight reservations about entering. At this moment, Heather noticed his strange expression and asked, “Don’t tell me you’re feeling nervous?!”

He responded by shaking his head. “It’s because the mystery is about to be revealed, so one would naturally behave quite out of the ordinary at this point.” He reckoned that his curiosity would soon be satiated and he couldn’t help but laugh in excitement.

“You’re quite a big fan of Zayne!” Heather recalled that he had high regard for Zayne a few years ago and this thought suddenly popped into her mind.

“Well, I did look up information about him to get to know him more when I was younger,” Leon responded as he reminisced about his sophomore year of high school. At that time, he was quite impressed with Zayne and had purposely gone to look for the latter.

Unfortunately, Zayne had left the location moments before Leon had arrived, so the two of them were unable to cross paths with each other. Leon currently had an indescribable feeling of being able to meet Zayne in such close proximity.

“Star-struck?” Heather had struck a chord, which caused Leon’s expression to turn. It was such childish behavior and he felt quite awkward now that he reminisced about it.

“Hehe! There’s no need to feel shy. It’s not a big deal!” she teased. Back then, Leon was still a kid when Zayne had gained worldwide recognition, so it was natural for him to look up to Zayne.

Heather knocked on the door and it took some time before Zayne opened it from the inside. As soon as the door was opened, Leon felt his breathing slow down. He glanced at Zayne with a nervous expression; the latter was currently dressed in loungewear as he was in the midst of brushing his teeth. Zayne was like the regular middle-aged neighbor from next door, which was completely different from what Leon had imagined.

“Miss Langston, you have such perfect timing! I was just brushing my teeth!” Zayne said inaudibly with a toothbrush in his mouth.

Meanwhile, Heather found Leon’s shock to be rather amusing. Truth be told, it was arduous to link Zayne to the man in front of them as the same person because not many people realized that Zayne was in fact quite a comical character.

“Zayne, have you solved the assignment I gave you?” Upon seeing Zayne, Heather immediately interrogated him. Her expression seemed to imply that he had been slacking off at his job.

At this moment, he smiled to appease her and replied, “The day hasn’t ended yet, so is it necessary to come over to call me out?!” He had completely overlooked the handsome young man standing next to her.

This was the first time that Leon had ever experienced the feeling of being ignored. My looks can usually attract everyone’s attention, regardless of gender and age! So, it was unexpected that Zayne didn’t even bother to say a word to him.