“Is Alexander with you?” I hurriedly asked.

Gai snorted. “No, he was supposed to come, but I found him asleep in his office. Wake him up for me, will you?”

My stomach jolted. “Gai, I don’t…”

“He has a bunch of work to do today,” she said. “I have to go. Wake him up, Olivia. That’s an order, not a request.”

Nervously, I tucked my hair behind my ears as I recalled the last time I had woken up Alexander in Washington. But I didn’t really have a choice. I guess waking up my boss was a part of my job.

Slowly, I turned the doorknob of his office and crept inside.

Alexander’s head was resting on his folded arms, propped up by his desk. He had giant black headphones covering his ears, like he didn’t want to be disturbed. That just made my stomach stiffen with anxiety, but I couldn’t back out now.

Gently, I moved one of his headphones to the side and exposed his ear.

“Alexander,” I said in a loud voice that rang throughout his office. “You need to wake up. You’re still at work.”

He didn’t even move an inch. I tried to wake him up by shaking his shoulder and practically shouting in his ear, but he just wouldn’t wake

up.

Was he pretending

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Honestly, he probably would.

Alexander had been wearing this morning strewn over it. He must have taken it off before his afternoon

fired for pulling

of the workday, I could also get in trouble with

lip as I considered

Oh, what the hell?

it. As I stood there, I ruled out the areas covered by his clothing like his arms and legs. Finally, I decided on

lifted his pointer

needle until it

decision

of sweat rolled down my forehead as Alexander’s hand twitched in mine. Determination coursed through me. It was

I wasn’t lying to him. “My grandma used to do this same thing to me


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