“Don’t you think that scene back there should be enough to scare him off?” I asked, dodging the question.
His lips twitched into a faint smirk. “You clearly don’t know your ex very well. If anything, you just challenged him.”
My brows furrowed.
He could tell I didn’t get it, so he stepped a little closer. “If you had picked some random guy off the streets of New York to play pretend, Caleb probably would’ve scoffed and walked away. But the moment you involved me, you lit a fire under him. Now he’s not backing down.”
Damn it.
I sighed. “I’m sorry for dragging you into this. I know you have your own life, your own… things to do.”
Alex chuckled, that low, easy kind of laugh that always made it hard to stay focused. “If it means rattling Caleb, feel free to wake me up at 3 a.m. I’ll be r
