Chapter 109

She ignores my presence, even when Alexi says my name mid-foreign spew of words, and she barely glances my way. It’s not hard to tell she has a major thing for him, and I lift my menu, sighing heavily to block her out and pretend to be engrossed in something I cannot read rather than witness this vomit-inducing show of desperation. I swear she’s on the verge of climaxing from getting to touch him. There is only so much woman gushing I can take around him, and she will probably require an underwear change after this.

“Cam?” Alexi breaks into my thoughts as he nods up to my left, and I realise the old man is standing with a hot plate already by my side and waiting patiently for space. I guess specials are already made and waiting to be dished. Moving my hands and pushing the menu into the holder in the centre to let him in while he lays a steaming, gorgeous-smelling plate in front of me, I look up at the duo instead.

Cling-on is standing with one hand on Alexi’s shoulder,