There wasn't much that Ed didn't handle calmly. Even when he was absolutely pissed, he rarely lost his temper or showed how upset he really was and this was no exception.
He was shocked, again, when Ashleigh's mother made that claim and he might have wondered about it for half a second, but Ashleigh had told him what had happened, or he thought she had, and he chose to believe her.
"That didn't happen," he told her, his tone still calm and even, though he was starting to grow annoyed with the things the woman was saying about his girlfriend. Was she always this horrible? Ed was definitely going to be asking Ashleigh to explain this later.