Alexis replied as she dressed herself, “This was a one-time thing.
Don’t flatter yourself.”
He ran his tongue over his lower lip and grasped her wrist. “And what if I decide to tell him?”
Alexis met his gaze and asked, “Would you really?”
A smile played on Leonel’s lips. “That depends on how you act.”
His smile held a trace of bitterness. Deep down, he yearned to ask her to return, but he knew she wouldn’t. Her affections were now with Calvin.
Suddenly, his mood changed.
His demeanor became even colder than before. He draped himself in a bathrobe and moved towards the balcony with a detached air. “Miss Fowler, you’re right. This was just a one-time thing.”
He lowered his head and continued, still smiling, “No matter how low I stoop, I don’t want leftovers from someone else.
After a moment, he gazed at Alexis.
She caught the expression on his face.
Then she turned her head away and announced, “I’m leaving now.”
Leonel’s Adam’s apple moved noticeably. After a pause, he asked, “Do you want me to call a cab for you?”
“I can get one myself,” she replied.
She discarded her dress into the trash. As she moved to Leave, Leonel’s voice
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followed softly. “Did you dress up so elegantly tonight just to tempt me?”
Alexis didn’t respond and she exited swiftly.
The door closed softly behind her. Leonel’s gaze lingered on the closed door, his thoughts adrift.
Unexpectedly, a warm droplet fell upon his arm.
Realization dawned on him as he lifted his head slightly.
In the aftermath of their intimacy, it became clear to him how completely he had lost her.
As they had sex, she was distant and barely present. And the name she softly murmured was not his.
Leonel let out a soft, imperceptible laugh at that moment.
It was nearly two in the morning when Alexis arrived home.
Calvin was still up, waiting.