Alex pulled back a little, a wary look on his face as he gauged her reaction. Jess looked briefly confused before leaning in and kissing Alex back in a silent 'okay' at the kiss he had given her, and he quickly kissed her back. It was hot, passionate and intense, probably highly inappropriate for the public setting they were at.

As they pulled back Alex saw her flushed face and swollen lips, eyes looking at him with a burning intensity, voice quiet 'I think that was quite a show for everyone'

He laughed, glancing up and seeing a few people eyeing them and he smirked 'Lets go outside?'

Jess nodded and they both picked up their coats and headed for the entrance, the sexual tension between them practically electric and as they were heading for the doors Alex glanced at her 'Can I just ask something?'

'Go ahead'

'Why didn't you answer my letter?'

Jess frowned 'You didn't send me a letter'

Alex raised his eyebrow, stopping short in the entrance hall

'I did, actually. I was going to email but I thought it was a bit 'impersonal', I sent you two actually. I sort of assumed from the radio silence that you just didn't want me to contact you so I dropped it. Are you still at Escala?'

Jess nodded, frowning 'we're still there… I definitely didn't get it'

'When did you send them?'

'Uh, June I guess?'

Alex shrugged and pulled on his jacket but she was deep in thought. 'Are you sure you sent them?'

'Yes, I left them with my brother and he dropped them at Escala, so they definitely arrived. Don't worry about it'

Jess was thinking. Christian might be into gross invasions of privacy, but he would never have even considered touching her post. In June however, things hadn't been good, and the one person who had been around who would possibly have been in a position to get rid of the letters. She dialled quickly, moving away from Alex who looked faintly amused but left her to it as Jess moved out of ear shot of him.

'Caleb – tell me honestly, did you do it?'

'Did I do what?'

'The letters from Alex… did you throw them away?'

The pause on the end of the line gave Jess her answer and she felt anger bubbling up inside her 'Why? Why the fuck would you do that? And you have five seconds to tell me exactly what happened'

There was an audible sigh on the other end of the line and there was a pause before Caleb spoke 'it was that weekend after you got in a fight with that girl at school, you were a mess Jess, you'd had a cat fight with a girl, you were flunking every single class and Christian told me you were on a self-destruct path and asked me to look after you. The letter was out on the side and you were playing with Harry and you asked me to read it whilst you were changing him or something. I read it and I dunno, I just didn't think it was good for you at the time, it was when you found out you were pregnant. I'm-'

Jess cut him off sharply 'it wasn't your decision to make. Goodbye Caleb'

She hung up and threw her phone across the room, seething with rage and stalking back over to Alex, who had a slightly wary look on his face 'everything okay?'

'Not really'

'Anything I can help with?'

The look that Jess gave him told Alex everything and he swallowed.

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Neither of them really registered much on the journey from the museum back to Alex's hotel room, the electricity between them reaching new heights when they were alone in the elevator and suddenly there were lips and hands all over each other, pulling apart as the doors open, lips red and swollen, breathing ragged as they practically fell into his room, slamming the door behind them.

After a minute of kissing, Alex pulled back and both of them were breathing heavily, their breath mingling in the inch between them

'J-Jess, fucking hell, are you- you don't have to do this, we can just pretend that nothing happened if you—

Jess cut him off with a hard, passionate kiss, and felt Alex's hands on her back, pulling her closer so that they were flush against each other, and as she ran her hands through his hair, Jess heard a light groan from him, smirking against the kiss.

Alex's voice was low and husky 'you have no idea what you're doing to me Jess'

Jess pushed Alex back a little so that the backs of his knees knocked the back of the bed and he sat down heavily, his eyes dark and never leaving Jess as she climbed on top of him, her knees either side of his, glancing down with a smirk

'I think I can feel what I'm doing to you Alex'

He groaned and sat up, pulling her towards him and kissing her deeply.

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