For a moment, Joanna Lawrence didn’t know how to respond to him.
She couldn’t figure out what he was thinking at this moment.
She didn’t know if he was angry about her getting into a fight.
Thinking about it, ever since they got married, she seemed to be constantly causing trouble, and he always had to clean up her messes.
Would he be angry because she’s too good at causing trouble?
"Um, are you... angry?" Joanna bit her lip and was silent for a while before she carefully asked.
If he was really angry with her, she could understand.
If she put herself in his shoes, if she were married to someone who kept causing trouble everywhere, she would probably be annoyed as well.
The man’s voice was cold. "We’ve only been apart for a short while, and this happened. Do you think I should be angry?"
Joanna clenched her phone tightly.
As she thought, he was angry because she caused so much trouble.
"I’m sorry." Her voice was weak as she apologized, feeling like she really was good at causing trouble, "I didn’t mean to cause trouble, I know..."
Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted. The man’s cool, sexy voice came through again: "Baby, I didn’t mean to blame you. I’m just angry because we’ve only been apart for a short while, and you’ve been bullied again. You’re being bullied, and I’m not by your side."
"I said that I would protect you and not let you suffer any grievances or injuries. But I didn’t do it."
Joanna was stunned, her eyes widening a bit.
His anger... was not because she caused too much trouble.
It was because he felt like he didn’t protect her well enough.
After a moment of stunned silence, a touch of sweetness surged up in her heart.
"It has nothing to do with you." Joanna spoke softly to the man on the other end of the phone who was blaming himself. "You can’t possibly spend 24 hours by my side, watching me all the time, looking out for me. You can’t predict what will happen after we’re separated, so how can anything be your fault?"
"And besides, I wasn’t really bullied. I’m actually pretty good in a fight. Usually, I’m the one bullying others." Joanna regretted saying this right after she finished.
As expected, the man’s deep, sexy laughter came through the phone: "You’re great in a fight, hmm? Baby, did you often fight with others before?"
It seemed like she had accidentally exposed something.
After a moment of silence, the man sighed softly: "Baby, I really want you to stay with me 24 hours a day so that I can see you all the time. Otherwise, I honestly can’t trust you."
Joanna thought about the words Ashton Heath murmured right before ending the call, her cheeks burning, and her ears turning red.
He whispered to her with his deep, sexy voice: "Baby, I want to hold you, kiss you. Baby not by my side, I miss you."
Such a gentle, seductive tone, tickling her heart so much she felt numb.
"Baby, what did your heartthrob husband say to you that has your face turning so red?" Aria Rowlett came up to her with a mischievous grin, teasing her.
Joanna, annoyed, pushed her face away: "If you’re so curious, go find one for yourself. Then you’ll know."
"Forget it." They both got up from the ground after having rested enough.
Aria dusted off the dirt from her body, appearing as if she had seen through the world’s affairs, "Rather than wasting time on dating and falling in love with a crappy guy, I might as well study how to make money and get rich. Besides getting rich, I’m not interested in anything else."