[Alex is entirely taken back by the idea that she’s got him like that. Even though she knows that she really shouldn’t be. The two of them had always had something that made Nic more than a little bit nervous, even going back to the time when he kicked her out of his office during that first interview.

They’d been professionally flirting that had more than occasionally crossed the line into real flirting. They’d had a connection. They’ve been jealous of other people who had come in and out of their lives. They were friends at the end of the day, or at the very least Alex had hoped they were. But there had always been tension underneath it and she knew it.

The tension underneath it feels different now. It rolls and swells with the beating of her heart and she just finds herself pressing closer to him now. When he touches her cheek she inclined into it with an unexpected little whine.

Yes, she should get food for them even though she’s a miserable failure for not being able to cook. But she can order pizza. There’s always pizza.]

Come in. I’ll order us something, Richard.