Chapter 19
Alex was busy making dinner when Ryan came through the front door. He up behind her from where she was standing at the kitchen island, and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. "How was your day?" she asked turning to look at him, whipping her hands on her jeans. She watched his face change as he walked over to the fridge not looking for anything in particular. "Not much happened." He answered not bothering to look at her. "Can I go take a shower quickly or do you need some help?" he asked looking at her. "No I'm fine. By the time you get out dinner will probably be ready." She smiled at him pointing the knife towards the stairs so he can go take his shower. "Hey, are you okay?" she questioned when he got to the first step. "Yeah, I'm fine." He responds giving her a small smile while jogging up the stairs. Alex couldn't help but wonder who that man was he was talking to. She just assumed it was his dad because they shared so many similar features. But she won't push him to say anything, or not until he is ready to talk about it at least.
When she finished peeling the potatoes her phone buzzed on the counter and she wasn't surprised to see it was NImah texting her wanting the details she still hadn't told them. She quickly made work of it to explain how it all went down, trying to add as much detail as she could in her texts while double texting sometimes just so they can chill until tomorrow when she knows she probably have to re tell the whole thing from beginning to end again. She put the phone down on the counter and turned the stove off calling upstairs to Ryan to let him know dinner was ready. When he didn't respond she went to look for him because she assumed he was till in the shower. Instead, he was sitting on the bed with his phone in his hand looking even more distraught than earlier and not even noticing her presence in the doorway. "Ryan? What's going on you're worrying me." She said walking closer to him. He just shook his head standing up while throwing his phone on the bed. "I'm not hungry. I'm going to catch up on some paper work." He responds walking past her down the hall to the study. Now she was really concerned about his strange behavior. The phone buzzed again on the bed and she was tempted to look who it was but decided not to. Instead she went downstairs and had dinner on the couch while watching TV.
After finishing dinner and the glass of wine she poured herself she did the dishes, checked if everything was lock, switched off all the lights downstairs before checking up on him again. She peeked into the study just to see him stare at the computer screen while not actually working. "You know I'm here if you want to talk, right?" she prompted. He looked away from the screen to meet her gaze. "I..I really don't want to talk about it right now Alex. Please just leave me alone right now!" He said louder than he intended. Good job pushing away the people who wants to help you right now Booth, he thought to himself. Alex didn't say anything, just turned around and walked out closing the door behind her.
She went into the bathroom to take an extra long shower, Just standing there while the water washed over her trying to figure out her fiancées strange behavior at the moment. When she walked out of the bathroom and into the bedroom Ryan was in bed already. She didn't know if he was actually asleep or just pretending to be but she would leave it at that. She got under covers laying on her side as far away from him as possible without falling off. Meanwhile on the other end of the bed Ryan resents himself for acting the way he did earlier. But he's just not ready to tell her what's going on. Not yet.
Short one. Hope you enjoy. Lovies-S!