Unexpected Seatmate

A figure took the seat beside me, but I was so absorbed in the big screen that I barely noticed. All I registered was that he was tall, with a faint woody cologne. Only then did I turn to see who it was.

I almost gasped—it was someone I knew.

'Alistair!' I thought, stunned.

Alistair glanced over at me, but before either of us could say anything, someone on his other side started talking to him. He