Chapter 45

ALANA WE’D LEFT EARLY IN THE MORNING AND DRIVEN THE WHOLE DAY. ALEJANDRO had even let me drive his Maserati and I’d put my foot down so hard on the gas that he’d warned me I’d get a spanking if I didn’t behave. He’d turned on his cell phone and I’d expected him to have a flurry of messages and notifications of missed calls, but he only had one from his mom, telling him to have a good time and that she’d speak to him when he was back online. It seemed that Jax really had handled everything in his absence, as Alejandro had known he would. I got the impression he disappeared like this every now and again. It was a lovely drive back to L.A. We had talked and laughed and stopped for food and listened to cheesy eighties music. But it felt like the closer we got to L.A, the more tense Alejandro became and I wondered again if the end of our trip would be the end of this thing between us. When we were an hour outside L.A, Alejandro call