Adam Jones's hand froze again mid-action, and his originally composed face now showed a fleeting trace of pallor.
After a moment, he raised his head to look at her with a stiff face and furrowed brows, saying, "Stop talking nonsense."
"I wasn't talking nonsense. Back then, when I was on the phone with you, I didn't notice the mountain landslide behind me. I almost…"
Before Elly Campbell could finish her sentence, Adam Jones had already covered her mouth with his hand.
Her palm-sized face was now only exposed through a pair of blinking eyes, gazing at his irritated expression.
"If you keep misbehaving and talking nonsense, I'll take you back to Boston right now. You can forget about coming here for the rest of your life."
Upon hearing this, Elly Campbell immediately fell silent.
It wasn't that she was scared by Adam Jones's threat; rather, she noticed the fleeting fear that passed through his eyes as he spoke those words.
