"What if it's a threat?" Henry asked Melissa in return.

"Well, it better not be, because I don't want to believe that you were threatening me because of that bitch," Melissa said to Henry, who immediately burst into a round of mockery laughter.

"Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, sweetheart, but that message was clearly a threat, and I meant everything I wrote in it," Henry said to Melissa after laughing to his satisfaction.

"That's a joke, right?" Melissa asked Henry, not wanting to believe that he meant what he just said, even though he looked and sounded so serious while saying it.

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