My jaw hung open as the words left his lips, my eyes bulging out as I tilted my head, staring at him with squinted eyes to be sure that I actually heard him.

“What?” I gasped. I must be living in an alternate universe where Lucan had just asked me to move in with him.

Yet joy bubbled in my heart, my body shaking from the excitement, but I held myself in, refusing to be seen as overly eager.

I knew it was only a starting point for most, but for me, for us, this was the most, and the fact that Lucan was initiating it was even mind-blowing.

“Raya?”...