章節 533: Chapter 36 : Secrets

*Lena*

The next day passed without much to talk about. I lounged in bed, feeling sorry for myself. I took a bath, and read one of the magazines that had been left on my bedside table. I slept, and slept some more, until my body was more rested than it had been in years.

Bethany provided some respite from my boredom by coming into the village to have dinner with Xander and me at the hotel.

It was the first time I’d been out of our room all day. Xander had been out most of the night, creeping into our room sometime in the early morning and leaving again before I had even risen from bed around 9:00. We hadn’t spoken since our fight at the estate, and the distance was beginning to wear on me.

“What’ll you do when you graduate?” Bethany asked over the rim of her glass of red wine.

“I haven’t given it much thought,” Xander replied, cutting another piece of prime rib and forking it into his mouth. “Travel, maybe.”