ryan, ryan, ryan *tsk, tsk*
you spend all that time cultivating a muture relationship with alexx and her children only to sabotage yourself by confessing your love during a profanity-riddled tantrum. oh, ryan. you must exercise self-control. 
i like janie. ryan and janie's doorway banter was too cute. i'm also glad that she's pulling for ryan. i have a feeling alexx's son bryan isn't going to be so accepting.
preston--good guy? bad guy? with his first appearence, i thought you were leaning towards villain. more than one person remarked about preston coming to miami when the information needed on a case could have been phoned in. i found that suspicious. are you sure he's not responsible for that woman's death? maybe he's trying to get close to alexx so he can have inside info on the investigation. okay, you can see i have marked preston as villain. most likely i am waaay off. 
i love horatio and i'm glad he made another appearance. you really have his character down. the way he looks after his people is spot on. now if you could write in one of his famous one-liner/exits. lol
this was another great chapter and i'm so thrilled that you decided to expand this story. as i said before, there aren't many alexx woods fics around. rylexx fics are pretty much nonexistent. thank you for writing such an engaging story for this character.
Author's Response: Ryan is impulsive and impatient and having a temper (oh those Irish!) isn't helping his case. I think his inner monologue revealed that he knows he messed up.
Isn't Janie a doll? She really has bonded with Ryan and cares about her mother's happiness. Ryan, whatever his reasons in the beginning, has been there for them all, so her take on things is understandable. However, as you've stated, Bry might have another take for all his Ryan love as a friend.
Without giving anything too much away, Preston is human. Things such as biases and prejudices have to be brought out into the open and acknowledged as such before the person haboring them can effectively with the issue(s).
I'm glad you are a H lover. Was worried about him because I know he's too much for some to take. lol But I thought he was necessary. I'm so happy I passed the H litmus test as far as writing him with some accuracy. I love him so it wasn't hard, but good to know I didn't over shoot my goal or under play it too much. I was thinking about giving him one of his cheesy one-liners, but it just didn't seem to fit. Perhaps in the next chapter. We'll see. lol
Thanks so much for the compliments. I'm just glad that so many are actually reading and enjoying the story. Rylexx would have been hot on the show. And gave Alexx a bit more to do as well as giving more insight into Ryan who is a truly fascinating character.
Thanks for reviewing.
