Massimo held off a curse as his own phone started to ring. He quickly moved to silence it, but then it just switched to loudly buzzing.
"Do you need to take that?" Elena asked innocently—completely unaware that she was the cause of Massimo's frustration.
He couldn't answer Elena's call in front of her! Then she would know her mysterious husband "Max" was actually just Massimo!
"Ah, no," Massimo quickly stated, desperately trying to think of a believable lie. "It's... an alarm! Since I have to get back to work, too."
Out of options, Massimo harshly turned off his phone. "I need to head out now—judging how my, er, coworker was talking earlier, it sounds like I have a long day ahead of me."
"Right, I forgot mechanics can have such early morning shifts—that's probably why you picked this
