Ace Kane had absolutely no shame about bullying Julian White—
and honestly?
Why should he?
Wasn’t this exactly the kind of thing Julian loved doing to others?
If Julian enjoyed acting like a petty tyrant, then it was only fair he tasted the same medicine.
So Ace folded his arms and said, with a perfectly straight face:
“Hurry up and swear. If you don’t swear, I don’t dare let you go buy cigarettes for me.”
Julian nearly popped his eyeballs from sheer rage.
The vein on his forehead visibly throbbed.
How can someone bully this endlessly? Does this man have no bottom line?
But reality was cruel.
Julian had a mortgage.
Bills.
Dead-end prospects.
He couldn’t afford to quit his job—not even if someone slapped him across the face with a shoe.
So he swallowed the humiliation like a
