Chapter Fifty-seven

“I'm really famished. What do you have at home?” Alex inquired after they had settled their little fight.

He was surprised when Emily told him that there was nothing edible for him to eat.

“Not even groceries?”

She nodded.

“How can you be living in a room without anything edible? Has hunger not struck you in the middle of the night?”

“Well, apparently, it hasn't.”

He then proposed they go out for a meal and also do some grocery shopping to stock up her kitchen with food supplies.

She protested, saying that she was accustomed to not having food at home.

With a light chuckle, Alex said, "You might be used to that, but I'm not. If you had something we could eat readily available, we wouldn't need to go out. What if I stay over and wake up feeling hungry?"

“Sleep over?” She furrowed her brows.

“Yes…”

He stared at her intensely, and his brows were also furrowed. “How is that a surprise to you? Why wouldn't I? Who knows, I might decide to do that tonight.”

The mention of him sleeping over