'You look rather distressed' Was his expressions that easy to read? He'd been attempting to shield his thought about the meeting with Alan. But he guessed he'd failed. Charles was too good at sensing his emotions. "I'm okay" he said with a small smile. "No, Alan is still where I left him. He wanted to focus on the case, so I left him too it. We both spoke and it's clear he's still feeling a lot of strong emotions from the past. I don't want to upset him... Old wounds can still hurt and I don't think he's ready" he said honestly.<br/><br/>There was no way he was going to tell Charles what had been discussed or that Alan had shed some tears over his lost Submissive. It wasn't his place. But he was glad things seemed to be okay between them still. "I didn't write anything simply because there wasn't much to say. You know everything and there wasn't anything new about the case. I didn't want things to look suspicious. I've asked him to join us for lunch around one o'oclock and I'm planning on doing some exercise once my foods settled to give you two some alone time in the house together" But he wasn't sure if the pair could fully work together yet or not. Breakfast had gone better than he'd expected, so he was hoping their time alone would work out too. If anything drastic happened he was sure one of the staff members would fill him in. Either that or he'd come home to one Dom remaining in the house. But he doubted either of the males would back down from each other. They were both stubborn.<br/><br/>"Are you okay?" he asked closing the door behind him and setting the ipad down on the chair beside the door. "I'm sorry if I took a little longer than you expected. I needed to make sure he was okay before I left".