13

~Matt~

It had been two days with no news of Xander. Aoife reached out to me almost as if on routine, while Xander was nowhere to be found.

Finally, I called Raphael, Xander’s elder brother, in hopes he’d seen him.

“I was waiting for your call,” Raph answered.

“Hello, big brother. How are you?”

“I’m good. Tell me what happened this time in between you two?”

“Nothing with me this time. Where is he? I haven’t seen him for two days. Is he with you?”

I sighed, not going into any more details. How could he tell Raph about Xander’s weird actions regarding Aoife?

Raph didn’t bother to know about it either when he answered, “He is in his relaxation zone. You can find him at the club. I got the call from the manager; he was there all day.”

“Thanks, I’ll check. Bye.”

Just great! Xander has different phases he goes through.

His relaxation zone phase means sex and lots of it, combined with booze all day, and nobody dares to stop him.

I rolled my eyes, remembering Aoife asked a few times about Xan