XENIA
Minutes after Thekla left, I heard a knock on the door.
“Who’s there?” I had to ask, because if it were her, she’d simply use the spare key card I gave her to get in.
“Hades.”
I got out of bed upon hearing that, throwing a T-shirt over my pajama pants and hurrying towards the door to unlock it.
“Hey,” I smiled warmly when I came face to face with him, “to what do I owe the pleasure? I thought you’d still be touring the expanse of the hotel with your friends.”
“That got cut short a while ago. Besides, you’re all I could think of the entire time,” he paused in the doorway as if mauling over something for a few moments.
Soon, he leaned in and kissed my forehead, sighing with deep satisfaction clear in his eyes when he pulled away and looked at me with pure adoration. Oddly, I rea
