William’s hand froze, his gaze snapping to my phone like he’d been slapped. I wasn’t doing any better.
I’d assumed Adrian stayed silent because he’d already hung up. I never expected the call was still connected.
Which meant everything that had just happened and every word William and I had said had likely gone straight into that man’s ears.
William yanked his hand off me and stormed to the desk. By the time he grabbed my phone, the call had already ended.
He stared at me, stunned. “You were on the phone with Adrian just now? So, he heard everything we said?”
I rubbed t my neck and snatched my phone back. “So what if he did?”
“So what?” William lifted his hand, then clenched it into a fist. “You made me look like a damn fool.”
I let out a short, cold laugh. If he’d known those ki
