Third Person's POV
It took Seraphina a second to process his insult, then she turned to him with a look of pure, academic disdain. "Do you just have a fetish for calling people dogs, Mortimer?"
This man—arrogant, entitled, and entirely too full of himself—clearly had zero concept of basic respect.
"Last time you called me a dog in a text, and I let it slide. Now you're calling my friend one too?"
Her voice was a sub-zero blade, and it left Mortimer blinking in genuine confusion.
Then, the memory hit him. The office. The photo of the clouds he'd tried to send her—the message Velda had interrupted, causing him to accidentally hit 'send' on: "Look at this stupid dog, reminds me of you."
Mortimer's eyelid gave a violent twitch. He opened his mouth to explain the glitch, but Seraphina was
