She hadn’t expected those citizens to be so aggressive, to travel all that distance to make trouble at her place, and even to threaten to throw sulfuric acid on her.
"Is there anything more important than your matters?"
Adam Jones’s face was cold, and he huffed, his eye corners filled with displeasure.
Yet the words that had slipped from his lips caused Elly Campbell’s heart to tremor suddenly, prompting her to look back at him once more.
Seeing that the anger in his eyes hadn’t subsided, she seemed not to be as afraid of him.
She pursed her lips, holding back a smile, and tugged on the hem of his shirt, softening her stance as she said,
"Next time something happens, should I tell you right away?"
Adam Jones looked at the faint smile in her eyes. With a tsundere huff, he then pinched her chin a bit too forcefully like a punishment, and said sternly,
"You want there to be a next time? You think this time wasn’t enough to scare me to death, is that it?"
If it had been before, Elly Campbell would have simply ignored him when he was stern, but at this moment, she stood before him with a smile, looking up at him.
"I know I was wrong."
She wasn’t as stubborn as before; right now, Elly Campbell, like an obedient little woman, was coyly pulling on his shirt again, repeating, "I know I was wrong."
With his wife so rarely humbling herself to apologize, how could Adam Jones stay angry?
Moreover, he wasn’t really angry with her; he was just frightened by what had happened earlier.
The thought of her face being splashed with sulfuric acid sent chills through Adam’s heart, and his facial expression turned colder.
Holding her tightly in his arms, his chin resting on the top of her head, he spoke softly, "Did today’s incident scare you?"
These days, Adam Jones hadn’t held back from embracing her, but at this very moment, with his protection surrounding her, Elly Campbell felt an unprecedented sense of security; the kind of overwhelming safety she’d never felt at any other time.
"No, they are just a bunch of clowns; they can’t scare me."
Elly Campbell replied honestly, but someone wasn’t too pleased.
Looking at her discontentedly, with lowered brows, he said, "Can’t you give your husband a chance to be a hero?"
The corner of her eye twitched slightly, and in a rare moment of cooperation, she buried her face back into his chest, her voice muffled, "Scared, terrified, I almost cried..."
She wasn’t acting the part at all.
Thinking this, he stretched out his arms and held her even tighter.
Just then, someone knocked on the office door.
Elly Campbell immediately stepped back from Adam’s embrace, looking like a couple afraid of being caught in an affair, a touch guilty.
Regaining composure, Elly Campbell went to open the door; standing outside was Robert Green.
Seeing Elly Campbell, he nodded respectfully and greeted her, "Lady."
"Come in, Aide Baker."
Robert Green walked in with a solemn expression, approaching Adam Jones and reporting, "President, everything has been taken care of."
Adam Jones nodded, gesturing dismissively for Robert to leave.
Not feeling welcome, Mrs. Baker astutely took her leave, and before leaving, she saw the tension between her boss and his wife easing, a look of relief in her eyes.
Elly Campbell knew that since Adam Jones had stepped in, he would handle everything for her; there was no need for worry.
As for the details, she didn’t ask; she only looked at him and inquired, "Did you take care of the matters in the United States?"