FIFTY ONE

Ray bounced his knee up and down in pent-up frustration. His flight was delayed for two hours. That was two more hours he should have been with Alexis. Two more hours he should have spent kissing her but he was stuck in an airport lounge. There was a lady working there who'd made passes at him several times and he'd had it. One more pass was all it would take to make him do something he'd never done before. Tell her to go screw herself.

He was anxious to get back but what worried him was how Alexis would react. He'd picked up his phone a million times to call her but stopped himself last minute. He thought giving her time to miss him was the right thing to do. He was wrong. Henry had called him and according to Marjorie, her friend had been sad but after a few days, she'd started being mad at him. He had been instructed to go back home bearing gifts, expensive ones at that if he wanted he