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“Pish posh, you know you’re worth that and more. If we’d had the budget, we would have offered you that job when you graduated.”
Except the last few words she’s saying might as well have been Chinese, for all I understand, given what’s waiting for me.
A blond man—six foot two, dressed in a long, black, tailored overcoat, open over a dark green knit sweater—leans back on a streetlight.
I blink several times, not sure if my desperate mind has actually just invented this.
“Oh my!” my boss says, following my gaze. Her eyes widen as she gasps. “Is that… Is that…”
“I’m the clingy ex himself,” Alessandro introduces himself with a half chuckle. “How do you do?”
Marion looks like she might faint. “Oh, my,” she repeats, having suddenly lost her articulated poise.
I can’t blame her.
“Less,” I whisper. Then I clear my throat. “What are you doing here?”
He tilts his head, smirking. “Here, in this universe; here, in the country; or here, as in, in front of your work?”
“All of the above,” I reply.
“Really. The last one is self-explanatory. I wanted to see you.”
I nod like it makes sense although it most definitelydoesn’t.
Marion clears her throat. “I guess I should leave you to it. Tomorrow, darling,” she tells me, with a pointed look that implies she wants all the explanations.
That makes two of us.
“You’re in England.”
“Mmhmm. It’s actually not my first time, you know.”
“Right. Were you sent for some diplomatic reasons?”
Yes, that makes perfect sense.
“Nah. I moved here.”
My jaw falls.
He didn’t just say that. He just didn’t. I should pinch myself because clearly, I’m seeing, and hearing things. I must be dehydrated.
“You wouldn’t believe the paperwork it takes to go from an Andarian to a British hospital internship,” he continues conversationally. “But hey, I’m me, so they made it happen.”
I blink several times.
“You moved.Here. You can’t move here. You’re a fucking prince.”
He shrugs. “Well, you’re here, so there.”
I stare in complete and utter disbelief.
I am dreaming, and that’s that.
“What do you say we get out of the cold? I have an apartment in Kensington. It’s pretty close.”
“You have an apartment in Kensington,” I echo, too shocked to budge, although it’s rather cold.
