The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 118
Fiona
I couldn’t believe it was almost ten o’clock when I looked at my watch.
“I’ve kept you here way too late,” I told the three colleagues who had been working with me all afternoon and evening. We were nearly finished with the proposal I’d promised to have ready for our client by morning. I could come in early to wrap it up myself from this point. “This is as far as we’re getting tonight. Everybody go home. We’ll pick it up tomorrow.”
till organizing my notes in the conference room.
t time in several hours, and saw I had an unread text from Alexander.
have done it if I hadn’t been a total mess from my crazy long workday.
te him a reply while riding down the second elevator to the lobby, saying I was finally headed to the car and would be back soon. I also apologized, a little sarcastically,
You can do it tomorrow. 😉
ings ready you said you wanted.
as I hurried through the palace halls on my way from the car to our bedroom. It was only about a two minute walk. But it was late on a dark, new moon’s night, and the big marble hallways were only dimly lit with a pale, ambient glow coming from sconces high up on the walls.
this space lackadaisically had come to an end, it felt like. I was jumpy now, turning my head to look around every corner as I passed intersections into other corridors. Looking out for Iris, I guess. Or
ettled down as soon as I caught sight of Alexander. I let our bedroom door fall closed behind me and felt safer immedi
y as he studied mine.
sked, concerned.
ary reflex. “Well, tired,” I added. “Very tired. Why, do I look terrible?”
palpable, radiating into me.
ing there.
t enough today?” he asked sternly.
ably not.” I hesitated, not wanting to start him worrying, but then confessed the rest. “I was pretty sick in the morning, actually. I threw up a few times. I think I was just fatigued.”
that made it sound like he felt fully responsible for the prob
ly.
ed in heading right in there.”
. That’s nice. Yes, I’d like that very
od,” he said, finishing up his work on removing my shoes and putting them away tidily by the door.
m a few minutes later.
“Don’t let me stay in here too long, though. It’s too relaxing. I’ll fall asleep.”
suggestively.
off and hung it on a hook on the door. Then he walked over and crouched down, coming to kneel beside the tub.
ht to sleep right now,” I told him regretfully.
aping me up. I let my eyes close while he moved the soft sponge all over my body, starting at my neck and chest and moving downwards.
” I whispered tiredly as he deemed his job complete and wrung out and hung up the loofah.
een so simple on my own in the clumsy, exhausted state I was in.
while Alexander dimmed the lights in our room and carved me up a s
delicious, heavily frosted chocolate cake.
in that moment. It was satisfying a very deep craving. There was something next-level, almost spiritual about how good the taste and the heavy dose of sugar was making me feel.
ed me a question. “Oh. Work. We’ve got a big problem with the development project. It’s a total nightmare, honestly.”
eyebrows shoot upward interestedly. “What happened?”
ly. “I’m sorry, I want to tell you all about it, but I’m just so tired.”
can’t handle.”
e a favor?” I asked.
What do you need?”
while back.”
ll.
my responsibilities at work, all the time I spend in the car back and forth, and everything… it’s just not always practical for us to have as much contact as my body would like…”
f the medication,” he said quickly. Then he leaned in and kissed me on the forehead.
u got frosting on me.”
y.” He went and got a cloth napkin, wetted it in the sink and brought it back. I snatched it from him and wiped my forehead.
I told him playfully. I handed him my now empty dish, along with the napkin. He put everyth
scooted his body close to mine and touched me with his warm hands.
ng my face into the crook of his neck. I was about to add, “but I should get up
egan to stroke my hair gently.
must have passed right out the instant I received that pe