#Chapter 105: Distracted

Alexander I couldn’t concentrate on a damn thing. My coronation was just days away, and there was so much to do. Event preparations, transition documents, letters and emails and meeting after meeting. I wasn’t going to be getting much sleep for the foreseeable future, and I knew I would have to buckle down and focus if I was going to be mentally present for any of it. But every time I tried to focus on anything of the smallest importance, my mind drifted back to last night. To Ella. To the feeling of her body beneath mine and her head thrown back and her hair cascading over this very desk that I was now sitting behind. We’d made love once. Twice. Three times. First here, right on this desk, then on the sofa across the room, and then in bed. I would have done it again had we not both passed out from exhaustion last night, tangled up together beneath the sheets. Fuck. I scrubbed my hands over my face and tried again to read the same paragraph I’d been starin