Verbal Daggers

[Doctor Cho's Residence]

His eyes flickered shut, and he was just about to fall asleep when his phone started ringing. He jerked awake, startled by the sudden noise and fumbled with his phone to shut it off before his wife woke up. In desperation, he threw a pillow over his phone, his face a high color. 

He watched as his wife turned over in bed, and for a minute, he thought he had accidentally woken her up. But as she turned over again and mumbled something incoherent to herself, Hao Yang decided that, thankfully, she seemed to be asleep. Sighing with relief, he turned back to the pillow and pulled his phone out from under.

"Now who is this so late at night?" he mumbled to himself, trying to find the caller's ID. When it finally did come up, his expression turned sour in the blink of an eye. "What the hell does he want?"