Lexi swung open the door and saw Yukina come to stand behind him. Lexi blinked and put the phone to her ear.<br/><br/>“Sid, tell Mr. von Engels that Yukina has arrived. She can be witness to our conversation and I feel safe with her. I’m hanging up now.” She said.<br/><br/>Without a word, Lexi went to the bathroom and returned with white towels, first for Yukina and then after a moment of hesitation, for Neo. She laid it on the table next to him, but kept the table between them.<br/><br/>Yukina seemed to understand how she felt because she positioned herself as a buffer between the two former lovers.<br/><br/>“Neo,” Lexi said, as she sat down, keeping her hand partially over her mouth. “Thank you for your apology and I accept it. No hard feelings and we can put it aside to work on this skull business. Thank you, Yukina, for coming with him as a chaperone for us. For the time being, perhaps this is the best plan. I do believe that Neo is the best man for figuring out this whole clusterfuck. I just want it over so I can go back to my mindless work of selling ugly tourist shit to boring rubbernecking people. Now, here..”<br/><br/>Lexi turned her computer screen around, avoiding Neo’s eyes, and kept on explaining about who she thought the skull belonged to.<br/><br/>“Knowing the name of the cursed, gives us some power over him,” Lexi explained, reading from the computer screen. “I think this is a good place to start.”<br/><br/>They talked for a while and Lexi couldn’t quite stop the ache in her heart at the loss of innocence to a man who truly made her heart beat fast.