Chapter 503

Britney rose from the ashes of her failure and disappeared by the door in defeat, leaving Elias alone. He exhaled a breath, relishing in a world returned to silence. That woman’s incessant prattling was so close to driving him up the wall.

The problem was, expelling Britney did not exorcize the bubbling bile within his chest. It felt like something was smoldering inside him, itching close to flaring. He sighed, even more exasperated, and smacked the magazine on the table as he fell onto the cou