ASHLEY or ASTRID
Only after that did Ashton then turned his face to look at Karl.
There was an awkward silence filling the air for a solid ten seconds before Karl embarrassedly repeated his words again to Ashton. Clearly, he could sense that Ashton purposely did that. But then he did not want to make a chaos out of it, or else the others might think that he still had feelings for Ashley.
"I'm Karl Jackson. Ashley's friend since high school. And you are?" Karl introduced himself politely, still controlling the irritation he felt inside when Ashton disregarded him before.
"I'm Ashton Grey, Ashley's husband," Ashton replied confidently and right at that moment, Lucia and Karl looked extremely stunned by the inf