Alex Drakos: Nothing Left to Lose by Mallory Monroe

Author:Mallory Monroe [Monroe, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Brook Publishing
Published: 2021-06-07T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Back at the penthouse and in bed, Kari was on top of Alex and Alex was deep inside of her, but it was more of a work-it-out than a lovemaking session for both of them. Alex was pumping so hard and holding Kari so tight as he fucked her that she thought she wouldn’t be able to endure it. Both of them were moaning and feeling the intensity as their sweat-filled bodies began to reach the zenith. And when they came, it was more of a stress release than an exhilaration. They had too much on their minds.

Alex remained inside of Kari and Kari remained on top of Alex after they came, and both of them continued to just lay there. They both had already taken peeps at the baby monitor. Angela, with her two nannies in the nursery with her, was still sound asleep. But Alex, Kari noticed as she continued to hold him, was shivering.

She leaned up and looked at him. “Are you okay?”

It was obvious he wasn’t okay. His entire body seemed strained. “What are they after, Karena?” he asked with deep frustration in his voice.

“What about the woman in Provence? What did she say?”

“She said she didn’t know what it was either. She just knew it would be harmful to me.”

“Maybe it had something to do with Bridgette,” said Kari. “Why else would they have used her?”

Alex shook his head. “There was nothing to that relationship. Nothing worth remembering anyway.”

“But what about that time in your life when you were seeing Bridgette? Was something going on then?”

Alex shook his head again. “No. Nothing. At least nothing I can recall.”

“We have to think more strategically, Alex. Is there something in your past that you may not think was a big deal, but that stands out as something more than the normal?”

“Goodness yes,” said Alex. “Millions of somethings.”

Kari hated to hear that. “But something really bad,” she said. “Something horrific. That can’t be in the millions.”

“The thousands then,” said Alex. Then he laid her head back down on his chest. “Stop trying to figure it out, Karena. My past is like a rabbit hole. There’s deep shit everywhere. I wouldn’t know where to begin.”

Kari closed her eyes. She married no saint. She knew that going in. And boy was that true now.

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