Not strong enough to face rejection

"Do I look like someone who likes to meddle in people's affairs?" Armando asked, and Emiliano rolled his eyes in annoyance and rose from his chair and walked around the wooden desk and half sat on the desk and tapped his index finger several times as if gathering words to say. Angelo didn't even move an inch no matter what because he knew if he said a word then that man on the phone would have his head. Mario sat without a care, as he went through some files he found on the table glancing at his brother occasionally and knew Angelo touched something he wasn't supposed to touch for him to be hiding away like a coward