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    The tter of the phone hitting the table startled n awake. He sat up slowly, blinking in confusion, clearly unsure of where he was.


    Kristian stayedposed, a faint smile tugging at his lips. “You’re awake?”


    “Who’re you?” n frowned, his head still spinning.


    Kristian took a slow sip of water. “Kristian Shaw.”


    “Kristian Shaw?” Still drunk, n muttered the name before suddenly leaping to his feet. “I know who you are!”


    Kristian raised an eyebrow. This was not how he expected the president of Briggs Group to behave when drunk.


    He calmly set down his ss and locked eyes with the unsteady man. “What exactly do you know?”


    “You’re Mina’s ex-husband!” n jabbed a finger at him, his face flushed and his words slightly slurred.


    Kristian’s face darkened a shade.


    There it was again—ex-husband.


    “Tell me! Why’d you bring me to your ce?” n barked, his tone heated. “Trying to use me to get to Mina?”


    Kristian stared at him in silence.


    But n, caught in his own dramatic spiral, kept going. “Just so you know—I’d rather die than let you manipte me into hurting Mina!”


    Kristian reached for his phone, fully intending to call Gerard and have hime drag this man out of his house.


    Now he regretted it. What on earth had possessed him to bring n here on a whim in the first ce?


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    “What are you doing?” n demanded, yanking the phone from him. His drunken mind was spinning with suspicion. “You better not be threatening Mina!”


    Kristian replied smoothly, without flinching, “I was going to order something for your hangover.”


    “Hah.”


    n let out a coldugh.


    “Hangover remedy? Don’t think I don’t know you poisoned me! You think that’s enough to take me down? I’ll get it out of my system myself!”


    With that, he plopped onto the floor cross-legged and began his bizarre version of self-detox.


    Kristian was dumbfounded.


    Taking advantage of the moment, Kristian grabbed his phone again, unlocked it, and scrolled to his contacts.


    But before he could make the call, it was snatched out of his hands once more.


    n, now oddly emboldened, held the phone high like some kind of hero in a fantasy flick. “You thought you could use the time I was purging the poison to call Mina? Dream on!”


    Then, out of nowhere, somethingpletely unexpected happened.


    n hurled the phone to the floor with shocking force.


    In an instant, Kristian’s phone shattered.


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