Chapter 49

Alexi clears his throat and moves back to the side of me, seemingly picking up on the change in my body language, and I blink at him in disbelief. Eyes glancing from the gun to him and back again sheepishly. Confused for a moment that he would remember and care enough to move. It knocks me off balance, and I can’t stop blinking his way, unsure whether that was a genuine moment or a calculated one, and it sends my stomach into hysteria.

I shouldn’t think about it.

Let it go, Camilla. This is how he always starts messing with your head. Do not care!

He angles in to extend an arm along with mine, so his warmth is like a second skin and adjusts the way I have the gun nestled in my hand, pulling it back slightly so it’s not so outstretched. I lose focus on the death machine and become fully aware of how he is touching and leaning against me, igniting sensations that I am not welcoming.

He’s close enough to breathe him in and try as I might to look at the gun in my