Immediately he nudged his friend beside him.
Darren nodded quickly. "Of course. We didn't know. If we had known it was GSK—"
"You didn't care who it belonged to," the manager interrupted from behind Adrian. "That was the problem."
At that moment Adrian raised a hand slightly, and the manager went silent.
Still, Edward persisted. "It's all just a misunderstanding. We came here in peace. We—we'll pay. That's all it was. Nothing more."
But no one believed him anymore. Not even himself.
And as Adrian stood there, eyes locked, unflinching, Edward realized—This wasn't going to be fixed with money.
At that point, even the air felt confused.
Avery stood frozen, her lips parted, unable to form a single word. Liam glanced at her for some kind of reaction, but even he couldn't find his usual cocky smirk. Edward, who had just moments ago puffed up like a storm, kept darting his eyes between the broken glass on the floor and the silent man in front of him.
