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"Dying of embarrassment?"

"Nope, that was definitely after" Alex rubbed his hand against my cheeks, which were still on fire "Youʼre so cute when you blush"

"You kneas listening," I accused

"Yes, but I didnʼt care" He resu him away

"Why?"

Besides the e out? How about knoith absolute certainty the look of disgust that was etched on Lia that vile man to have any access to any of the intimate moments of my life?

Of course, I couldnʼt say any of that to Alex He thought his brother was just all kinds of awesome

"I donʼt think your brother likes o

"He was rude earlier Iʼm sorry about that Heʼs just cranky because itʼs already starting to get warm outside He hates the South, but not you Trust ets to know you, heʼll love you"

I doubted that I doubted Lia

"He kind of scaresthe truth

"Thatʼs just his dori to take soet comfortable with each other"

"If you say so" I still didnʼt believe it, but decided to let Alex keep his one big happy fa about the brother I just sent away and get back to the reason I sent hiet any fears or concerns I had As long as he was kissingwas okay Heck, it was better than okay I couldnʼt iine an existence more perfect than one where I ith Alex, just like this Maybe I had died in the woods and this was h, there probably wouldnʼt have been so on the front door of Heaven

Alexʼs body was suspended above mine in terror He tilted his head towards the door and breathed deeply through his nose before relaxing

"Da on his shirt as he clilanced in the ers throughout, "Iʼ, for Christʼs sake"