Despite the late hour Kiko simply couldn’t feel tired. His heart beat with the thrill of something new, Dom in the passenger seat as he drove, taking out his phone as it jingled with yet another text. Kiko glanced over at him.
“f**k…off,” said Dom under his breath as he tapped in the reply.
“Alec?”
“Yeah,” said Dom, shoving his phone back in his pocket. “Wants to know where I am.”
“It is nearly eleven,” said Kiko.
“I have a keycard.”
A silence fell, disrupted only by the further indication of Alec’s continued texting. Kiko began to feel a little nervous, and Dom grew stiffer in his seat.
“Tell me…” said Kiko after a time, wishing his conscience didn’t demand he ask this. “You and Alec…you are broken up, right?”
“Right,” said Dom, not annoyed like Kiko had expected. “And the lesson
