Zack panicked while scrambling his brain to fix the current situation.
If his words draw a wedge between Chloe and Noah, Zack was confident that Noah will wedge something in Zack's stomach. A knife probably.
Zack wished that Masika is in the room; she always has a solution to these relationship things. Why did she go to the storage to help load the medical supplies, leaving him behind?
Ah! Chloe is still looking at him and expecting an explanation!
"Of course, Sarah is married.", Zack said and laughed awkwardly. "None of them is trying to marry Sarah or to seduce her or anything like that. They want Sarah to crown them as her favorite. You see, Aaron and Noah are high school friends with Aiden. This is a macho competition between guys to outdo each other. Sarah is not a prize. She is the judge."
