Ethan was bewildered by Tony’s outburst. 'What’s wrong with this i***t? Does Tony West even have a functioning brain?'
Ethan thought. 'What kind of nonsense is he spewing now?'
Tony, convinced of his own cleverness, assumed he’d pieced everything together. He remembered Sarah and her colleagues talking about someone kneeling, and he surmised that Ethan must have been the one to kneel before Clara. He figured Ethan had begged for Clara’s forgiveness and pleaded to become her bodyguard.
Tony smirked and taunted, “Ethan Sinclair, weren’t you so high and mighty at the birthday banquet? Miss Walport offered you a chance to be her bodyguard, and you turned her down. We all thought you were too proud to bow down. But now, here you are, groveling!”
Tony laughed mockingly. “Haha, I didn’t expec
