At this moment, Ethan spoke in a deep voice. “Hadley is here.”

Emily blinked in confusion.

She thought, ‘Did Ethan not understand what I meant? Why is his answer so off-topic?’

She had no choice but to muster her courage and clarify, “Mr. Thomas, what I meant was, do you want to…”

“With Hadley here, he’ll take care of it.” Ethan’s voice grew a bit colder.

Emily suddenly understood that he meant that Hadley would handle that kind of ...