Victoria’s lips quirked at his familiar gesture.
	[i]Chivalry isn’t dead yet,[/i] she thought, linking her arm through the offered crook of his elbow. [i]Not as long as he’s around, that’s for sure.[/i]
	She grinned at the ground and let him lead her through the courtyard, her hair falling around her face. She had always liked that about Alex; he always had this old-fashioned aura about him no matter how modern his surroundings. In her experience, it was rare for her to sense that in a non-supernatural. But, as she had reasoned long before, she would have seen it by now if he was anything but human, and even her aunt and uncle had not seemed to mind him on those few occasions when they met.
	“A penny for your thoughts, then?” She shook her hair out of the way and looked up sideways at him, her gaze searching his face. “Anything I can help with, maybe?”