Hours had passed, yet Adam Jones's foul mood remained unchanged. The image of Elly Campbell tenderly calling another man "baby" gnawed at him, fraying his nerves.
Standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, he cradled a glass of red wine. His tall figure was mirrored in the glass, but his eyes, seemingly empty, held a sorrow too deep to fade.
His defined knuckles gripped the stem of the wine glass with precise pressure, his fingertips tensing as if on the verge of snapping the delicate glass.
The memory of Elly Campbell avoiding his gaze, guilt flickering in her eyes when he asked about that man, only fueled Adam's restless frustration.
He lifted the glass and downed half the red wine in one gulp, but it did nothing to quell the smoldering fire in his chest—if anything, the flames burned even hotter.
His gaze fell on the phone resting on the glass table beside him. On impulse, he picked it up to call Elly Campbell, only to realize—he didn't even have her number.