The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 119
I snoozed my alarm and told Alexander I absolutely had to get up when it went off again in seven minutes.
He smiled sleepily and grabbed my wrist, dragged me close to his warm body, and then pulled the covers back up around my shoulders. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the shiver of comfort that slid down the length of my body.
“I’m sorry,” I said into his chest. “I told you I’d schedule more time for us to be together this morning, but with everything that happened yesterday…”
p. “I’ll make some coffee though. And make you some breakfast. You need something in your stomach other than chocolate.”
r called me “sweetheart” before. He was more lovey-dovey than usual when he was in this kind of half-awake state in the early mornings, though. I tried to forget he’d said it before the nervous feeling in my chest, which had fluttered to life at the sound of that tender pet name, could gain any momentum.
ressed and ready much more quickly than usual to make time for that promised breakfast. I was starving. I definitely hadn’t taken in suf
r my day. Or as ready as I could be, still running on so little sleep for so many days in a row at this point.
His silence told me that he trusted me to handle the situation.
rdinary thing.
y cheek.
was playing a risky little
ght of letting things get to that place with me and Alexander, not while I was still unsure about his intentions for our relationship in the long term.
verywhere else, all the time. My neck he liked very much. My forehead and the top of my head he had a habit of kissing sweetly when he was trying to be tender.
irting with the boundaries of our agreement… it was not something Alexander usually played around w
ound
all box that rattled when I picked it up. I read the label on the front: it wa
fect. I s
eo.
new routine on the aerial hoop, my new obsession!
e top.
Some slow, bass-heavy music started, and Nina began to dance.
fect timing. Then she stopped the hoop suddenly; it soared a couple feet up into the air. Nina sat down into it as it rose and rode it up into the air, holding it at the edges like she was on swing.
dy, going upside down with her legs in a perfect split.
d have a slack-jawed stadium crowd on their feet.
were an acrobat!
I just learned the hoop a few weeks ago. I
ve, too. That was crazy to watch!
d of awesome. Wish you could come watch one of my shows!
desperate to feed me tequila shots. And in my current condition – pregnant, insanely busy with work, exhausted all the time – that environment sounded extra awful.
not my scene.
are you gonna have time for me soon?
r, it had a negative impact on my life. Laughing with Nina was good for my soul.
ing my early mornings to extra moments with Alexander, instead… it felt really good to start my day with him.
ble to speak as freely with him around, but it would have to do.
r being so easygoing.
st as my car rolled up to the front of the colossal glass skyscraper that
on’t forget to send
replied: I’ll see what I can do.
Will you do it
.
that and see…