My Husband's Affair My Anniversary Gift (Lily and David) novel Chapter 157

As they exited the airport, Roy started talking about their schedule again, but David wasn’t listening. His mind was already back home, already thinking of what he’d do the moment he returned.

She could ignore him now, she could block him now but sooner or later, she would have to face him.

And when that time came, David swore to himself, he wouldn’t stay silent anymore.

This time, she would know exactly what it meant to provoke him.

As soon as David stepped into his hotel room, he said to Roy in a low, firm voice, “Get me Lily’s office phone number.” Roy blinked, a little startled by the tone. “Now?” he asked carefully, already knowing the answer.

David shot him a sharp glare as he tossed his coat onto the sofa. “Yes, now. Do you see any other time I’d mean?” His voice was clipped, his eyes dark and restless. He ran a hand through his hair, pacing once before stopping near the window. The city lights outside painted faint gold lines across his face, but his mood was far from calm.

Roy hesitated. “Boss, it’s late in our country. The office might be closed....”

“I don’t care if it’s closed!” David snapped, turning abruptly. “Find the damn number.”

Roy sighed, pulling out his phone. He knew better than to argue when David was in this kind of mood. The man’s temper was unpredictable, but this was worse, this was agitation born from something deeper. Roy had seen it since they boarded the plane: David had barely spoken, checking his phone every few minutes, his expression hardening each time he saw no message.

After a minute, Roy said quietly, “Found it.”

David extended his hand, impatient. Roy passed him the phone .

Lily was in the middle of a meeting with a few clients, her focus fully on the presentation spread out before her. Numbers, designs, contracts, her mind was juggling a dozen things at once when her phone started ringing on the table.

She frowned, the sound cutting through her concentration. The call was forwarded from her assistant, which meant it had to be something work-related. Without checking much, she picked it up and brought it to her ear.

“Hello?”

A voice snapped on the other end, sharp and angry. “Unblock me. Right now.”

Lily froze. For a split second, she thought she’d heard wrong. But then came the unmistakable growl of David’s voice again low, furious, and all too familiar.

“Lily, I’m warning you. Unblock me right now. How dare you block my number?”

Her mind blanked out for a second. The clients sitting across the table glanced at her, waiting for her to continue, unaware that the calm, polite woman in front of them was seconds away from throwing her phone across the room.

She forced a breath through her nose, her nails digging into the edge of the table. He dared to call her office. Her office.

“Boss?” Roy’s voice came from across the room. He had seen this before the dangerous silence, the kind that came before David broke something. “Boss, are you okay?”

David didn’t answer. His expression was unreadable, but the tension in his shoulders said everything. He slowly let out a cold, humorless laugh. “Important person,” he muttered under his breath, the words bitter like poison.

Then, with one sharp motion, he threw the phone across the room. It hit the wall and shattered into pieces.

“Boss!” Roy yelped, jumping to his feet. “That was my phone!”

David didn’t even look at him. He sat back on the sofa, elbows on his knees, his hands clasped tightly together. His eyes burned.

“Damn this woman,” he muttered, his voice low. “She blocked me, insulted me, and now she’s playing games.”

Roy hesitated, watching him carefully. “Boss… maybe she didn’t mean...”

“Didn’t mean?” David cut him off sharply, his eyes flicking up. “She said she’s with an important person. Who the hell could that be? She didn’t even go room last night. Is she still with Jabco?”

He gritted his teeth, his mind racing with ugly thoughts. The idea of Lily sitting with another man,.smiling, talking, maybe touching made something inside him twist painfully.