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free. Drinking, hanging out in clubs, fucking an endless array of women and spending as much money as he could in a short period of time. Like he was in some sort of carnal marathon, indulging in as many sinful activities as possible before the plug was pulled.
    Alex was getting increasingly closer to pulling that particular plug. Rhett wouldn’t know what to do with himself when it happened.
    And it was definitely going to happen. Soon.
    “We’ve reached flight altitude.” Lora appeared with a tray of fresh fruit and an array of delectable pastries and set it on the table. “Would either of you care for something to drink?”
    “More coffee.” His clipped tone made Lora’s overly made up eyes harden and Tessa sent him a chastising look.
    “I’ll take a glass of water, please,” she said to Lora.
    “Right away.” Offering Tessa a strained smile, Lora buzzed toward the back of the plane.
    “There’s no need to be so rude,” Tessa murmured when the flight attendant was out of earshot.
    “She treated you terribly. She’ll be lucky to have her job by the time we land.”
    Tessa’s eyes widened. “You wouldn’t fire her over what happened earlier, would you?” She sounded aghast which in turn made him feel guilty.
    Only a bit though. “Why not? I can’t have someone like that working for me.”
    “Times are tough. You wouldn’t want to be the cause for her losing her job.”
    Disbelief coursed through him. “You’d rather forget her horrible treatment of you?”
    “Maybe she’s having a bad morning. We all have them sometimes.” Tessa shrugged.
    She was far too kind for her own good. Perhaps naïve would be the better description. The only reason Lora had treated Tessa so abominably was jealousy. The flight attendant flirted with him every time he flew and she was the staff on board. In the past, he’d responded, albeit lightly and never with any serious intent. Looks-wise, she was his typical preference. Blonde, blue eyed, fair skinned, thin. But he’d never been tempted to take it any further, not like with Tessa…
    “You’re too nice,” he muttered just as Lora approached, setting Alex’s new coffee in front of him after she offered Tessa her glass of water. “Thank you,” he said to Lora.
    She beamed. “A hint of cream and one lump of sugar, just the way you like it.”
    “Indeed.” He sipped from the cup, surprisingly pleased with the results. “I’m impressed you remember how I take my coffee.”
    “Everything about you is hard to forget. At least to me.” Offering him a coquettish smile, Lora turned on her heel and sauntered away, her hips swaying, head held high.
    If she really believed she was in his good graces again, she was mistaken.
    “She flirts with you,” Tessa observed when Lora was out of earshot.
    “You don’t say.” Alex again sipped from his coffee, surprised by Tessa’s comment.
    Her cheeks flushed a pretty pink. “It’s rather obvious.”
    “ She is rather obvious.”
    Tessa laughed and the sound of it vibrated through him. It was a lovely sound, a bright tinkling of happiness. A sound he wanted to hear again, soon. “Have you two ever…” Her cheeks grew pinker, and she waved a hand about.
    “Ever what?” He knew what she meant. He just wanted to watch her squirm.
    Funny how the word squirm caused his rather vivid imaginations to roar to life, filling his head with illicit images all involving Tessa. And him. Naked. Together.
    “You know.” Her voice dropped to a sultry whisper. “Dated?”
    He chuckled and shook his head. “No, we’ve certainly never dated.”
    She furrowed her delicate brows. “Something else then?”
    Undoing his seatbelt, he leaned forward, resting his forearms on his knees. “Are you interested in my dating history, Tessa?”
    “Oh, I’m really not, I swear.” She waved a careless hand, wiping her words away with a flick of her fingers. “I was just trying to—make conversation.”
    “Interesting conversation