CHAPTER 59
9:30 pm, Azalea condominium unit.
AZALEA
I was glad no one walked next to Dimitri and me at this hour. Otherwise, they'd witness our childish battle for supremacy. I would normally fight through the end, but my eyes were teary, and I was hankering for the silence of my bedroom to rest my exhausted mind and body.
"You’re so mulish!” I said annoyedly.
Those words declared me the loser in our little challenge— our staring challenge. The first one to move their gaze away or the first one to say something, which I did, lost the game.
I stood next to the half-open door. I wanted Dimitri to go home. I couldn’t entertain him tonight. Definitely a NO to his kind of entertainment, where we always ended up entwined in bed. I wanted to rest early and be at the airport early. He, too
