CHAPTER 37: Adrian
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Adrian wanted nothing more than to yank the phone from Ellie’s hand and tear Marc a new one, but he’d give her one warning. “Don’t tempt me. I will do it.”
“Go ahead.”
He knew that tone. He’d heard every woman in his life use it at one time or another and it screamed Warning. Warning like the robot on Lost in Space.
When he was a kid, he’d witnessed his father ignore that tone and continue blithely on with the argument. It never ended well for his dad and he’d always wondered how his father could be so stupid but now he understood. Her tone didn’t matter. The warning siren going off in his brain didn’t matter. The only thing that did matter was finding an outlet for this raging frustration and disgust with her. How any woman could forgive a guy who’d treat
