Mina answered her phone and quickly apologized to her parents for not immediately responding to their calls. Her mother was eerily calm in her responses, but her father was irate. He had heard Zane's voice clearly, and he was questioning her about things Mina did not even know her parents were worried about.
"Let me speak to them," Ian said, as he gently took the phone away from a wide eyed and frozen Mina.
"Mr. Harlow?" Mina's father shouted into the phone, speaking at a volume Mina had only heard him use once. "Sir, please calm down. The man you heard is my best friend and colleague. Mina is one of our top employees and he just wanted to wish her a happy birthday." Mina hated that President Lee had taken the phone off speaker, and she could not listen in on the conversation. She was a nervous wreck, and Zane was staring at her with an expression that told her he loved every minute of her anxiety. "Of course," President Lee said before walking away.
