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“No.”
Sheneverwatches movies?
“What about shows?”
“You’ve seen what my hobbies consist of.”
“Hobbies? I’ve seen one. Reading smut.”
“Unless you read smut, you shouldn’t call it smut.”
“Not counting the first few, I’ve read every book I gave you.”
“That’s impossible. I can’t even read that fast.”
“Every book I buy you, I get on audio, too, and listen to it myself before giving it to you.” Picked up that hack from my mom. I tried reading the physical books, but she’s right, I can’t read that fast. With audios, I can crank the speed up and knock it out in no time.
“Why?”
She knows this, but I tell her anyway.
“At first it was to make sure there was sex, then that the sex was consensual. After that it was to make sure you’d like it. And…”
“And?”
She doesn’t know this.
“Because I want to be able to talk to you about the stories…if you want.” Books are the one fucking thing she lets herself have. I don’t want her to have to enjoy them alone—if that’s what she chooses. If not, then at least I’m broadening my horizons into freaky territory because romances are the best kept-secret into women’s fantasies, and I’ve already picked up a few new tricks.
Lex folds her arms over her chest.
I almost forget I’m still holding my shirt until the fabric falls from my hand.
“Happy? I’m not a cop. I’m not a rat. I just know how to use the internet.”
“Why were you using it to look me up?”
“You tell me, black Dahlia.”
The sigh she releases could trigger earthquakes, and I start to worry I pushed too hard too soon, but then she says, “My name at birth was Aleksandra Obuchowski. My dad, Aleksander, went by Alex, so almost everybody called me Lexi. Cyrus took the nickname and made it my stage name. You already know he changed my last name to Andeno when he adopted me, so legally I became Aleksandra Andeno, but I was still known as Lexi.”
That all checks out with what she previously told me and what I found on my own. We’re finally getting somewhere.
“When’d you become Lenox?”
“When I married Kordin. Instead of just changing my last name, I changed both.”
“Why Lenox?”
“You’d have to ask Kordin that. It was his idea.”
“The name?”
“The whole thing—changing my name, which name to change it to, how and where to change it. It’s a much easier process to change your first and last names at the same time than it is separately.”
And doesn’t raise as many suspicions.
“Did you want a different first name?”
