The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 101

I pushed aside the uneasy feelings – they may have been all for nothing, anyway – and exited Grandfather’s room quietly, following Alexander and pulling the door almost-closed behind me.

We were halfway to the elevator, passing the floor’s reception desk, when I saw that nurse again. The one who was in Grandfather’s room last time Alexander and I were here together. Who had given him a look of longing and a needlessly close pass of her body.

She was standing behind the desk, turned to the side photocopying a document on the glass scanner of a big printer. She caught sight of Alexander as we approached and did a less than discreet double-take.

his happened, Alexander had ignored

t her eyes on my man

s not going make a point of showing her that he was taken, then I

into his and gave it a tight squeeze. He looked down at me and smiled. I gave him an encouraging wink, and he lifted my hand to his mouth

arrow. I looked over my shoulder at the nurse. As expected, still had her eyes on us. My icy stare hit her hard; she flinched when she met my gaze, and then rapidly looked away.

ton labeled L for lobby; while his eyes were busy on the button panel, mine flicked back to our friend behind the desk.

t us again.

ed into his mouth and nose in a huge inhale.

nd.

jaw dropped a half-inch, and stared her down fiercely.

nt wide, her cheeks flushed, and she shivered.

er.

Good.

Alexander

The weekend passed like a dream. Fiona was o

e machine—and reawakened when she was nearly out the door.

ly three-thirty.

al a*****e if he expects you in the office at four a.m.” I shuffled my body upright, leaning back against the headboard, and snatched a water glass from my nightstand.

pleased to earn a

across the dim room.

hly washed hair to fluff it up with even more body and volume. Distracted by this display, I missed a narrow opportunity for follow-up questions about Nina and her odd availability for pre-dawn meal date

“I’ll be back for dinner by six,” Fiona continued, her tone

ee you then.”

a casual glance over her shoulder. “At least, not all the time.” She grinned and winked at me, added “Bye,” and smoothly closed the door behind her.

t.

loon was popped and blown to bits the second

n’t want to go,” she whined before the door had even

?”

by.

d for my chats here with Iris and took a seat. “So, what’s the problem? Why don’t you want to go to your appointment?”

ch of medical tests like that, hmm?”

l be waiting for you in the hall. Okay?”

the bed, held it bundled tightly against her chest. “Okay,” she said at last. “If it’s too much though, we can leave, right?”

ut the door at this point. I could deal with that situation later, if it came up.

over with at the beginning of our day of tests, since it was what seemed to scare Iris the most.

ully panicked, hyperventilating until the tech intervened.

patient and very good at her job. She managed to calm Iris down with breathing guidance, reassurances about the procedure and quick-talking chit-chat. Then she br

woman’s teal scrubs. I would later figure out who h

e rest of Iris’s appointments pas

would not have the patience to sit through the long, tedious ordeal with her head inside the machine. But somehow she fell asleep and took a long nap un

urs of medical testing being an unpleasant, onerous chore.

a little over an hour before I’d need to start cleaning myself up.

ight, please, and don’t forget to eat and hydrate.” That last bit was a reiteration from the blood tech’s parting speech.

pouting.

ng that sometimes treating Iris like a child was the most effective way to course correct in the face of her childishness.

see you again?”

thing.”

for her efforts with the medical tests and then, as politely as I could, got away before she could start complaining again.