He glared at me and replied, “What, do you own this road?”
I shook my head. “Of course not.”
“There you go,” he said with a shrug.
I sighed. This man really is weird, I thought to myself. After walking for a bit, I heard my phone start to ring. Strangely, it wasn’t with me.
I looked around before realizing that my phone was with Holden’s two men.
Those two men read Holden’s expression and caught on quickly, taking my phone out of my bag and passing it to Holden.
I widened my eyes and looked at him. He answered the phone expressionlessly. “Hello, Mr. Fuller. This is Holden.”
Ashton!
“Holden, what are you doing?” I said in slight anger. What’s with this guy? How can he just answer someone else’s call like that?
I reached out in an attempt to snatch my phone away, but Holden raised the phone out of my reach. Ashton said something, and Holden abruptly ended the call. He looked down at me. “Can’t reach it?”
I tried to suppress my anger. “Holden, that’s my phone. Did your mom never teach you proper manners? Don’t you know you shouldn’t take things without the owner’s permission?”
His expression suddenly darkened. Suddenly a little frightened, I looked away.
Smack! My phone got smashed on the ground mercilessly. He threw it so fiercely that my phone got shattered almost instantly. I started to feel kind of bad for all my phones. It seemed like none of them ever had a peaceful death.
I was shocked silent by his sudden rage and looked at him in fear and confusion.
He narrowed his eyes, clearly suppressing his own anger. “Yeah, my mom never taught me manners. Are you going to try and teach me or something?”
Upon that, he approached me dangerously. I stumbled back as he stared at me in disdain. “Only someone as cheap as Ashton could ever fall for a woman like you. You just got lucky.”
I was enraged by his sudden insult. “What’s wrong with you? Why can’t you just talk things out like a normal person?”
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