ALEX.
“What the hell? Can’t you watch where you’re going?”
I opened my mouth to utter a quick apology, but I stopped abruptly. I knew him the moment I saw that smirk on his face. It was the same crooked, annoying curve of his lips, the same lazy confidence that had rubbed me the wrong way the first time I had encountered him the other day at the twins’s schol event. My stomach dropped before my brain even caught up.
“You,” I said before I could stop myself.
He turned slowly, eyes dragging over me like he had all the time in the world. Then his face creased into a wry smile.
“Well, if it isn’t the same annoying lady,” he said. “Didn’t expect to see you here.”
I crossed my arms, instantly uncomfortable. “I didn’t expect to see you either.”
He chuckled, like I had said something amusin
