Chapter Twenty-Seven
Alexia was startled awake by a pounding on her door. She glanced blurry eyed at the clock and gasped. It was 2AM. Who could be banging on her door at such a ridiculous hour? Alexia thought about ignoring it and trying to go back to sleep, but the banging turned insistent. She knew the person knocking wouldn’t go away until she answered. With no other recourse, she got out of bed ready to give the person at the door a stern talking to. She looked through the peephole to make sure it wasn’t a drunk weirdo mistaking her door for someone else’s. She gasped when she saw it was Tony. She unlocked the door and opened it a crack.
“What are you doing, Tony? It’s the middle of the night.” Her tone was brisk, she didn’t like her sleep being disturbed even if it was by the man s
