No Need

By the time the other came back from his smoke break, he didn't have interested in talking with Houston

There was something about being scolded like a child that got under Houston's skin, especially since he wasn't the one who had started the altercation in the first place. He had simply just asked to either share the office space or be allowed to have it back since it had been given to him. 

The other man was the one who elevated it to another level and then tried to play it off as though it wasn't at all his fault. He was going to be someone the detective did his best to avoid working with while he was here. 

"So which one of you started the problems?" Ambrose didn't seem upset over what had taken place nor did he seem all that invested in finding out what happened.