Alexander
“Name your price for the land. Any price, name it, and it’ll be in your account immediately. If you value your life, you’ll agree.”
The line beeped, the abrupt sound echoing in the silent office. I stared at the phone in my hand, my grip tightening as a cold wave of disbelief settled over me.
She hung up.
She actually hung up on me.
She didn’t ask who I was. She didn’t ask what I wanted. She didn’t even pretend to consider my offer.
She just hung up on me.
I didn’t need to look up to see the expressions on Leo and Thomas’s faces—they were as stunned as I was.
“What just happened?” Thomas finally blurted out, his voice hesitant, as if he himself couldn’t believe what he had just witnessed. “Did she just hang up on you, sir?”
I exhaled slowly, my jaw tightening.
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