Chapter Thirty-Two: Lexa

Chapter Thirty-two

~ Lexa ~

I couldn’t sleep after my conversation with S. I knew her goal was to push us all together. I had no doubt that she had made her rounds to the others already. She was right. We were acting like children. We practically were children. No matter how much we pretended, we had no clue what we were doing.

There was a knock at my door and I whirled my chair to see who it was.

“Hey,” It was Jax, and my heart sank.

“Hey,” I replied, feeling a little self-conscious about how I had acted earlier.

“It’s your shift.” He told me, “But if you're tired, I can wake Grey.”

“No,” I said as I pushed myself away from the desk. “I’m fine.”

“Did you get any sleep?” Jax questioned carefully.

“What can I say that won’t have you yell at me?” I tried to kid.

“You know I don’t yell.” Jax answered seriously.

“I know,” I sighed. “About earlier, I’m sorry. I’ll try harder.”

Jax held his hand up to stop me from rambling.

“Lexa, I don’t want you to try harder, I want