I cannot forget who this man is—even if he’s playing the role of sane and reasonable.

It feels like I am in an alternate universe or maybe I am high and not really here. Maybe I died on my apartment floor and this is the first stages of hell when they lure you into a false future before ripping the floor away and letting you drop into the fiery pit below. Alexi would definitely be a part of this— seeing as he is the devil incarnate.

‘Anything else?’ He brings me back to focus, head brimming so full I think it may pop. There’s nothing in his casual pose to...