  &quot;Go up, I just need to make a call and take a minute.&quot; Alexi smacks my arse saucily as we walk in the front door of his house and sends me trotting across the floor in bare feet. He has my shoes in his hand after I discarded them in the car and tosses them onto the hall chair, watching me wriggle away suggestively towards the stairs. Smiling his way and winking at him because I can. He watches me with that sexy smile, eyes scanning my curves and making me feel like a goddess. All drama ebbing away and now I have my mind on more important things.
      He didn't say much driving over here and he seems to be a little introverted after that ugliness. It's clear he did not want to talk about it, so I left it alone, knowing if he wants to talk it out then he won't be shy about it. I left him to brood, and I can tell he is trying to throw it off, so it doesn't follow us for the res

  We end up on a private flight early next morning, as the airfield last night had to cancel all flights back to Manhattan for several hours because of a helicopter pilot crashing on one of the runways. Apparently, someone poisoned the poor pilot with pistachio cake, not realising he had a severe nut allergy and almost killed the man. Bloody helicopter crash due to cake poisoning has to be one of the most farfetched reasons to delay a flight I have ever heard, and it put the airfield out of use overnight.
      Well, I suppose it's not as bad as the time I had to fly from Chicago to New York and the pilot died when his lift plunged several floors of the building he was coming from; a freak accident that started a fire and ravaged the whole building. You couldn't make this shit up. Apparently, everyone died in that blaze.
      Alexi didn't want to drive home either as he literally hates 

  Alexi leads the way from the garden, scooping up my shoes as we pass and splits away from me to jog over and tell his family we are leaving. I idle by the path at this far edge and pull my shoes on as I wait for him. Watching him with a strange contentment stilling my nerves as various family members hug and kiss him. Looking so at home with them and much more relaxed than when we arrived. My stupid tears have stopped, and I just feel in great need of being naked and joined to him to wipe away my dumb insecurity.
      I note his father giving him a goodbye hug that lasts longer than anyone else, but his mother is nowhere to be seen. I shrug it off, wondering if she has returned to her basement to go throw some bat wings in her cauldron. Maybe gone to stuff more decapitated heads for her secret collection. Bet she has a whole cupboard of voodoo dolls stashed away with Alexi's face on. 

&quot;Go up, I just need to make a call and take a minute.&quot; Alexi smacks my arse saucily as we walk in the front door of his house and sends me trotting across the floor in bare feet. He has my shoes in his hand after I discarded them in the car and tosses them onto the hall chair, watching me wriggle away suggestively towards the stairs. Smiling his way and winking at him because I can. He watches me with that sexy smile, eyes scanning my curves and making me feel like a goddess. All drama ebbing away and now I have my mind on more important things.
      He didn't say much driving over here and he seems to be a little introverted after that ugliness. It's clear he did not want to talk about it, so I left it alone, knowing if he wants to talk it out then he won't be shy about it. I left him to brood, and I can tell he is trying to throw it off, so it doesn't follow us for the rest of our day. I can almost bet he needs a few minutes of headspace, to down something strong and brea

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