This. I don't know if that interaction was intentionally but seemed very strange to me. Encountering one of the pitfalls of an open relation (which can also happen vice versa in their own by not having enough communication) and the reaction is "we don't need to talk, don't bother me" and next thing is she blows some random in the toilet stall without doing the due diligence that caused the Mike situation in the first place.being hurt by Mike and MC holding her hand to make some new baby steps in understanding their relationship (seriously the "I need to process this alone" really underlines how the connection with MC is feeble).
(You can opt-out of course, but that deprives us of Ashley and that is a no-can-do