Chapter 122

I’m groggy and sleep-muddled when I pad through to the main sitting area of our living room in a loose summer dress I changed into, rubbing my eyes and yawning like I didn’t have myself the most extended siesta. I wander towards the long leather L-shaped couch where Alexi sits to slide beside him and curl up next to that sexy body. Blurry-eyed, cooler due to efficient AC, and generally in a happier mood now I have slept.

I must have slept for at least a few hours as the lunchtime sun that was up when we got here is now lower in the sky, suggesting late afternoon. He’s on his laptop with his phone propped to his ear, leaning forward to the coffee table and has a brown file of papers open to his right. He’s working, so I lie beside him and push my feet against his thigh for some contact. I twirl my hair and watch him, feeling wholly content, sighing with how quickly the resentment and scars from how he was towards me in the past are fading. My heart is brimming with the adoratio