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Lexi was exhausted to death. She should’ve listened to Tess when she had tried to get Lexi back home.

Stifling a yawn, she double-checked the dresses and the accessories.

Dropping down on one of the chairs of the dressing room at the back of the main stage of her show, she pressed her palms to her eyes.

The dressing room was much bigger than she had expected. Mirrors lined the walls. The chairs with the name of the model that would occupy it, were set right in front of the mirrors.

Everything would change, the very next day. She felt that in the pit of her stomach which just added to the ever increasing stress.

She had been so stressed that she didn’t even know when she fell asleep on the couch in her office, the last night.

Though she caught up with only three hours of uncomfortable sleep, she was glad for it. As glad as she could be, since the couch offered her no comfort.

She regretted not taking Tessa’s advice.

So now she had a sprained neck, a terrible backache and a painful arm which somehow got twisted in her sleep.

Her head throbbed with the pain. If this was her condition for catching up a three hour nap, then god alone knows what would’ve happened if she hadn’t slept a wink.

Lexi stood up from the chair and cracked her neck when Tess, her lovely sister, came in with a cup of coffee like a guardian angel. She opened her mouth to say something, probably something like « I told you so » and ruin the moment when Lexi shook her head a little.

« Please. Not a word » she groaned as she snatched the cup from Tessa’s hand, ignoring the eye-roll

« You’re a lifesaver » Lexi breathed out.

« Uh huh… » Tessa folded her hands across her chest as she looked at Lexi’s face with narrowed eyes.

« Come on let’s go. »Tess said, turning her back and walked over to the door.

« Where ? » Lexi groaned.

« Oh. The girls are waiting in the mock room. Everyone’s kind of nervous, you know. So I thought maybe you could, you know, give them a pep talk or something »

Lexi slapped her hand to her forehead, a little too hardly.

Rubbing her forehead, she followed Tessa, with a cup in her hand. Only to stumble and have her coffee spilled all over herself.

She cursed out a long thread.

« That’s what happens when you don’t get your sleep. » Tessa said over her shoulder and she stuck her tongue out at her younger sister.

« Sticking your tongue out at me isn’t going to change anything. » With that said, she slipped out the door.

Lexi followed as she pulled her sticky shirt away from her body. Tessa had already brought the car at the gate, by the time Lexi had reached the entrance.

Sliding in the back seat, she rested her head on the back rest.

Within five minutes, they had reached her office building.

Without waiting for Tess, Lexi took the elevator to her office. She went straight to a small cupboard where she kept her spare clothes, only to find nothing except a pair of sweatpants and a baggy t-shirt.

She sighed. Today was so not her day. And she had no other choice but to wear those oversize clothes. She donned on those clothes as she cursed her luck

She heard their voices before she even rounded the corner and entered the mock room.

Walking over to the horde of girls that stood at the far corner on the mock-stage, she clapped her hands twice to get their attention.

While giving them a pep talk was easy, she wasn’t sure if that was convincing since she herself as a big ball of nerves.

Since the girls seemed to be smiling, and also from the two thumbs up from Tess- she hoped that whatever she had said was enough to calm their nerves.

She rounded them up for one last rehearsal.

Jumping down from the raised platform she placed her chair in front of the stage before she sat down.

She didn’t switch on the music as she wasn’t in mood for something loud. She regretted that decision as she could hear voices from outside.

Everytime Lexi was in the mock- room, Tessa took over the receptionist’s desk. She sent the receptionist on coffee errands and other things she wanted.

Lexi could hear voices from the lobby but not the conversation.

« Hold on » she said loudly as she got up and left the room.

Tess stood behind the desk her hand waving animatedly as she talked to a man in suit whose face she couldn’t see. But she wanted to see his face.

Lexi was a sucker for men in a suit. She secretly hoped that the man in front of her was the same man whose photos she saw in the news every week.

She leaned against the wall as she watched them. Watched him.

Broad shoulders, dark inky hair cropped and gelled. He was tall to even tower over Tess who was of the same height as Lexi.

Damn, but she needed to get laid if she was ogling men like that.

« You look familiar ? » She heard Tessa say.

« Do ,I now ? » She could hear the amusement in his rich dark voice that sent a delicious shiver down her spine.

That voice.

She could never forget that voice. Had he somehow found her ? Had he spent these months thinking about her, as much as she thought about him ?

« You’re Logan Hunt » Tessa said nonchalantly

« That’s not the reaction, I get from women. » He said .

« Oh really. What do they do ? »

« Mostly they fall on their knees, or pounce on me. » He said amusingly

« You’re such an egotistical ba-«

« Tessa » she warned.

Tess looked over his shoulder at her and scowled.

« What ? He is. Didn’t you hear him ? »

« I heard him, alright. I’ll deal with him. »

Logan turned and looked her straight in the eye.

« You. » He whispered.

« Yes me. » she pushed herself from the wall. He cleared his throat and Lexi stifled a smile. He was flustered. That was good for her.

Making her way over to them, she said, « Get me another cup of latté. »

« Lexi-«

She knew that the receptionist was already at the cafe but she had to make Tess leave. She couldn’t talk to Logan while Tessa was standing there.

« I know. Just go. » She said without breaking eye contact with Logan.

« Fine. » Tess said quietly. Lexi knew Tess would give her hell after everybody would be in their way home. But she would deal with her sister later.

« Wow. She is something. » Logan murmured.

« Careful, Mr Hunt. »

« Right. So I am Mr. Hunt now, huh ? » Logan raised an eyebrow.

« Aren’t you ? » She threw back.

« After a night in bed, I guess you get the privilege to call me by my name. »

She didn’t say anything. After what felt like hours of silence, she shut her eyes and sighed.

« It was supposed to be a one night stand for a reason, Logan. » She opened her eyes as she looked into his blue ones. She wanted to drown in those blue eyes.

« So you knew who I was ? »

« No. I didn’t. I didn’t know who you were until the next morning. »

« Oh. » He paused for a few seconds « That’s embarrassing. I don’t even know your name. »

« Alexis Beckett » she said pushing her hand forward for him to shake.

He looked at her hand and slowly reached forward.

« Keeping it formal, are we ? »

« What do you want ? » She pursed her lips.

He didn’t say a word. Instead he took her by her hand and pulled her in his arms. Lexi, taken by surprise, stumbled and wound her arms around his neck.

« Do you know how hard I tried to find you ? » He whispered, his breath hot on her lips.

« Why ? » She whispered back.

« Because I couldn’t think of anything but you. You invaded my thoughts, day and night. »

She wanted to say ‘me too’. But she didn’t.

She wanted to kiss him, right then. She was so close, she just needed to lean a bit. She licked her lips and he groaned.

« You’re making it hard for me Lexi. » He whispered.

« Don’t hold back. » She blurted.

He growled and bent his head down. Lexi pushed herself on her toes to reach him. She moaned at the contact of his lips on hers. A hint of cinnamon and the familiarity of those soft lips brought her back to that night, in that hotel in Paris.

She would’ve loved to deepen it. She would’ve loved to tear his clothes right there and have her way with him if only she hadn’t heard footsteps. She pushed him away just before the girls came barreling out the door of the mock- room, she had unconsciously closed

« Wha-« he stumbled back.

She wiped her mouth with the back of her mind and tried to calm herself down. She let her hair fall down and act as a curtain to hide her face from any telltale that she had just been kissing the man in front of her.

« Logan ? » She heard someone say.

Frowning, she looked up to find Sydney there standing beside Logan with a confused look on her face.

« What are you doing here ? » She asked as she rested a hand on his arm. Lexi scowled in annoyance at that gesture. Why she was annoyed, she didn’t know. All she knew was she wanted to rip that hand off of Sydney’s shoulder.

« You know him ? » Lexi asked trying to mask the annoyance.

« Of course I know him. » She looked at her then at Logan with dreamy eyes and smiled

« He’s my fiancé »

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