It was rare for anyone to hear Zein laughing, but now that they did, they had no idea how to respond. It sounded beautiful, but the tone was rather cold, like a laugh used to mock something.
"You?" Zein snickered. "And who said that?"
"People," Nora replied with a shrug, sounding so nonchalant for someone who got accused.
"They don't know you, do they?" Zein chuckled while standing up from his seat. "They don't know how well you know me."
This time, Nora let out a laugh too. "Yeah, they certainly don't."
Because Nora, as someone who already framed Zein in the past, knew how ineffective such tactics were for Zein. Things like slandering his reputation were something that Nora knew would never hurt the man. Furthermore, using a relationship allegation, when he perfectly knew that Zein and Bassena had something going on between them?
