Madeline stepped out of the bathroom quietly, cautiously even, she had deliberately spent more time than she needed too in there for two main reasons; one, she needed to get cleaned up and also get her body under control, secondly, she couldn’t find it in herself to face Alvise immediately, especially when he knew she had no underwear on. However, she soon accepted that she very well couldn’t keep hiding in there.
She found him seated behind his desk looking enrapt in whatever it was that he was that was on his laptop screen. He had taken off his jacket and had undone the first two buttons of his black dress shirt, like always, he looked effortlessly glorious, and for a moment she just stood there staring at him.
“I was beginning to worry about you taking so long in there”. He said as he
