CHAPTER 157 EXASPERATING THEATRICS

With a slam, Hutton shut the door. Placing the food on the table, he reached for his phone and texted Bella. “Bella, I’m upset! I won’t be pacified easily!” As Bella received Hutton’s message, she was seated in a car beside Kennedy. The driver had been appointed by Henrik. Both Henrik and Kennedy appeared quite pleased with the successful agreement of their cooperation. In light of this, Henrik had invited Kennedy for dinner at a newly developed resort in the suburbs, which necessitated Bella’s accompaniment . Currently, as she stared at her phone screen, she could picture Hutton’s disappointed expression vividly. She smirked slightly, selected a comforting emoji, and sent it off to assuage him. However, just as she did, her phone was swiftly snatched away. Whirling around, she found Kennedy perusing her phone before he promptly retracted her sent emoji. “Kennedy, what are you doing?” she asked, perplexed by his abrupt action. “You touched another man with that emoji,” Kennedy