Chapter 52: Naomi’s Irritating Calls
"Hello, who’s speaking? You’ve literally called more than 10 different phone numbers in this span of 2 minutes. Just speak your damn business and stop calling, bruh." A masculine, crash voice spoke through the speaker.
Just by the sound, he felt unpleasant to deal with.
"What do you mean by ’called 10 different numbers’, mister? Why do you have phones of 10 different people?" Naomi shot back, not appreciating the tone of the speaker.
"I called Natasha. Where is she? Who are you?" She continued.
"Natasha, my foot. Stop calling everyone and go do some work bruh. Are there no zombies there or what? Let me sleep over here."
Saying that, the man directly hung up the phone leaving Naomi speechlessly staring at Fredrinn.
What even just happened?
Rhea had also listened to the call, and she couldn’t comprehend why a person would behave so rudely for no reason.
Sure, it was Naomi’s fault to call people at 2 AM in the night, but the circumstances around the world weren’t too great to really care about the... ’etiquettes’.
In addition, why did he mention that she had called more than 10 people already?
How did that guy know? Was he from a network providing company, tracking over her calls?
That didn’t sound that convincing.
"I am going to call again." Naomi narrowed her eyes and dialed back the same number that the man had just spoken from.
However, the call never went through and instead beeped out, a robotic voice announcing that the person she was trying to reach was unavailable.
"That bastard declined the call."
She called again but the call was declined in an instant.
Clearly, that man didn’t know the password of the device or he would’ve blocked her by now.
But since he didn’t, Naomi kept calling the same number over and over again until the man stopped declining the call.
Instead, he let the ring play out and die out on its own.
"He put it on silent." Naomi guessed.
"What now...?" Rhea glanced at the fuming woman beside her.
"He said I called more than 10 numbers before him... maybe he has collected the phones for some reason, and my calls have been going to him?" Naomi huffed through her breath, an evil smile gracing her features as she cracked her fingers and neck.
Fredrinn watched her with an interest.
She looked so focused and in the moment as she began dialing the same numbers over and over again.
The calls got declined a few times, but she kept jumping from one number to another.
She was going to go through her entire contact book but call that guy again no matter what!
Not only that, if she runs out of the numbers, she won’t hesitate to borrow Fredrinn’s, or rather, Richard’s phone and dial from that one.
They had many mutual friends so the plan would work.
But luckily... it never got to that point.
After nearly 2 minutes of the drama, the man finally picked up the call.
"What do you even want, you bitch?! Go do something productive instead of harassing me over here!" He cursed over the call hatefully.
Her repeated calls weren’t letting him sleep for even a wink and the poor guy felt very groggy.
Maybe that was the reason he was also feeling cranky.
"Answer me why do you have everyone’s phones?" Naomi asked calmly, not taking his curses to her heart.
If someone was irritating her in the same way, she would’ve probably used even worse language.
"Babe, they just dumped all the phones in my security office, I don’t know why. If you are so curious, come over to Ohio’s safezone and I can tell you everything ’personally’~" The man replied in a perverted tone.
Naomi felt disgust from his malicious voice.
Yet, she held in her distaste and narrowed her eyes, "You’re speaking from the safezone? And they have taken the phones of everyone in there?"
"Oh shi– I mean, yes. It’s just a security procedure, love. They will get their phones back first thing in the morning, don’t worry."
"Is that so? Then I will be calling everyone in the morning." Saying that, Naomi directly hung up the call.
Her chest was heaving slightly as she released a breath she didn’t realize she was holding.
Her eyes fell on Fredrinn, who was listening on the call silently without offering a single input from his side.
"What? Why are you staring at me like that?" Naomi murmured in a low voice.
"Not at you. At your phone. That phone call sure was interesting. Did you record it?" Fredrinn said.
"Yeah, my phone autorecords all phone calls. Including the ones you made to me."
As if to prove a point, Naomi furiously tapped on the phone’s screen as she played a trimmed audio, barely 4 seconds in length.
In the audio, a feminine voice said "I love you" with a voice crack. She was clearly feeling overwhelmed. And then, a masculine voice casually replied, "I love you too."
The audio ended at that point.
"Seeing you edit that part specifically makes me wonder if you want me to say those words with seriousness this time Naomi. Would that make you feel better, hmm?" Fredrinn smiled playfully after listening to the audio of his phone call long back.
Rhea stared at the man blankly.
She wasn’t well versed in the arts of romance and flirting, but even her untalented brain could figure out that he was flirting with Naomi.
WHILE ANDREA WAS SLEEPING ON HIS LAP?
Rhea’s brain was slightly corrupted by those romance novels, but even then, she always thought that a man should stay loyal to only one woman, and so should the girl.
However, now, she doesn’t know what to think.
Her sister’s man was flirting with another woman right in front of her eyes!
Then... a low, evil and dangerous whisper rang inside Rhea’s head.
It felt like a devil’s whisper.
And it was saying...
’If he’s being like that... I have a chance, don’t I? It’s his fault for being a playboy... Not mine...’