#Chapter 29: Unknown number

I sent Nina a text and asked her to meet me at the palace the next morning for breakfast. She was all excitement, saying she would have Kayden drop her off first thing in the morning. I shook my head, wondering if that meant Alexander’s Beta was already at her place right now, and planning to stay the night. Probably. Alexander had returned from his evening training session looking destroyed. Then he spent half an hour soaking in a tub of cold water, silently brooding over something but trying to hide the dark cloud of his mood from me. He didn’t do a very good job of it. I heard the tub draining and the shower turning on. He was heating himself back up after the ice bath, which was good news for me. I wanted him to touch me tonight with that steamy heat he usually had pulsing off his skin. I hoped he would emerge from the bathroom in a different mood, over whatever had happened on the training field and ready to give himself to me for the night. It was not until he was turni