Ashley did not react much to Jaxon Elijah’s dismay. Instead, she stood up and took her bag. Opening it calmly right before Jaxon’s eyes, her every more was very graceful and unhurried as of he did not step on a landmine with what he just said.
Even Jaxon was doubtful until…
Ashley pulled out a gun from her bag, aimed it to Jaxon, and undid the safety pin. And Ashley did it in one fluid series of movements without any hysterics.
She was so damn calm that it was unnerving.
Jaxon Elijah once served the military. He knew a killer’s eyes when saw one. And right now, his nominal wife was pointing the gun at him. He did not move. Not because he was afraid but because he did not see her as a threat at all.
His service in the military was not for a show after all.
The air was so brittle that
