Theo snorted. "Oh, please. Anyone with a working brain can see through your stupid act already. There's no need to congratulate me."

Frank, however, simply kept smiling. "No, I'm congratulating you for something else entirely."

"Something else?"

Even before Theo could understand what Frank was talking about, his mother's phone started ringing.

While Ilsa was still sneering in contempt as she picked up, her face turned pale in an instant.

Her cheeks were drained of all color as if she had just fallen from heaven to hell, while her phone slipped from her fingers and dropped on the floor with a thud.

And over the phone, a man was roaring furiously, "You bitch! I'll kill you! I'll kill every last one of you!!!"

The people around could more or less hear him, even though Ilsa never turned on her phone's speaker. "What?"

those around Ilsa either-Gina, Theo and

Frank was smiling and shaking his head. "Huh. That's quicker than I thought... I guess he's really furious this

looked at him in confusion when his phone started ringing

from his father Monrad Whiteson, so

you say to Mr. Gene Pearce?! He's threatening to kill

was stunned that his own father was howling at him in rage and despair, Frank kindly turned on the speakers

warning you, Theo!"

you upset or how you insulted Mr. Pearce-you will call Mr. Pearce

do you understand?!d was planning on living a couple of years more, so why the fuck would you insult Mr. Pearce out of the

silent as Monrad kept yelling over the phone in

"H-How...?"

family had presumed that Frank's call was just an act, and their minds were thus blown

as he stared at Frank in

is

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