The door slammed angrily behind Christian as he stormed into the room, his shoulders stood at attention, painfully aware of Antonia on his tail.

."You're really going to act like you're deaf or are you just simply choosing to be an ass?" The anger rang clear in her voice with every word that left her lips.

Christian tried to shrug the annoyance off but all it did was throw coal into an already blazing fire.

The reaction was swift and sudden but expected. She grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, his brows recoiled, his own anger rising to the surface.

"Now that I have your attention, I'd ask...