9 Kyle Defends Alex Kyle woke up groggy, his head pounding disproportionately to the amount of alcohol he remembered consuming. He groaned, realising that not only did he not have any clothes on, neither did the brunette lying unconscious next to him. Kyle leaned over the side of the pallet and his stomach heaved, emptying its contents onto the floor. He lay back in the bed covered in sweat, breathing deeply for a moment, trying to gather his thoughts about where he was and what had happened. Through the fog that his last memories seemed to be, Kyle remembered being in the ballroom of the palace; it had been an official function. He then remembered that they had left after an incident involving Jess and her mother … hooked up with the women—who were undoubtedly ladies of pleasure—which

