Chapter 25

“You tell me what to do and spit your dummy out if I don’t. You just got me into a position where I couldn’t control the outcome. YOU are the one who put me in danger.” I point out boldly and lift my chin at him defiantly. Not about to back down over this topic at all!

Alexi at least has the grace to shrug and nod. He knows he cannot argue with that. You do not work a sex-starved creep into some wild frenzy within minutes of meeting them; you take it slow and win them over emotionally first. If it had been on my terms and left to be manoeuvred my way, it would never have gone the way it did.

“You’re right, and I apologise. It won’t happen again.” Still effortlessly deadpan, I follow his lead as we walk, dropping something I no longer want to talk about.

What’s done is done, and I have learned never to linger on this kind of shit, or else it fucks your head up. Get over it and move on, look forward and keep going, it’s worked for me so far, and I won’t fix what isn’