Chapter:-77

1 month later:

Alex's bad day turned into a horrible one when he returned home after a customer appointment and found Jasmine lounging on his couch.

"Out," he said. It had been a long and tiring customer appointment, and if his manipulative bitch of an ex-lover had returned from nowhere and was plotting and scheming once more, he wanted no part of it. "How did you even get in?"

Jasmine waved a lazy hand towards a window. Alex was pretty sure he had been shut down when he left. "What a warm welcome," she drawled, raising her eyebrows. "I have missed you too, Alex."

"What do you want?" Alex asked bluntly, not in the mood for games of subtlety. Jasmine pouted.

"Don't you want to hear the story?"

"What story?"

Jasmine leaned back elegantly on the sofa. "How I survived all this year's," she said melodiously.

"I expect you bribed and bullied some other Alpha into sparing you with the promise that you would disappear from the radar," Alex said flatly. "So no, I don't want to hear the