<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">Lucian let her go when she moved to leave his arm, though he kept his hand firmly on Alexi’s waist ashe hadn’t tried to move. <span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“What? We were just having a bit of fun, not scare you off.”</span> He was interested when he saw the reactions from both of them, him turning red at something that Lucian hadn’t heard and her turning to look at the store for absolutely no reason. He leaned down and whispered into Alexi’s ear, <span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“She can’t actually sniff out bookstores can she?”</span></span>