Chapter 251: Punchline
Adam glanced at the wall behind him and then at the cold, unreadable face of his wife. Her eyes were locked onto his with an intensity that made him feel like a schoolboy cornered in the headmistress’s office.
He asked softly, "Melon? Are you going to hit me? Should I fear for my life?"
Melanie scoffed, almost offended by the question. Without breaking eye contact, she placed both hands flat against the wall on either side of him, closing the space between them, her arms caging him in.
"Do you have any idea how it felt," she began in a biting voice, "to discover that you were the Chairman of StormEdge in the middle of a board meeting? No warning, no clue, just... boom. I asked and Max was like here you go... And there you were sitting there saying things like ’This is about cleaning up.’ ’ what am I supposed to do with your sorry?’ Like it was just another Tuesday. Like you hadn’t been hiding the entire truth from me for so long.
She narrowed her eyes, " Do you even realise what it felt like, sitting there, trying to keep a straight face, trying not to let it show that I was just as stunned as the rest of them?"
Adam opened his mouth to speak, but she cut him off with a raised hand and another tirade.
"And then, then I had to introduce you to them. I had to sit there while all those old fossils looked at me like I was the one who kept secrets. Do you know they kept asking in the meeting later, ’Why didn’t you tell us in advance?’ Like I had known! What was I supposed to say? ’Surprise, I just found out too?’"
She finally stopped for a breath, and Adam gave her a cautious, slightly guilty look. His mouth opened again, apology on the tip of his tongue.
But Melanie didn’t give him the chance.