It didn't feel like a declaration. It felt like stating something that had already been true for a while and was only just now being said out loud. Like finally naming a thing that had been sitting in the room with them all along.

Ryan pressed his lips to her temple and held them there.

Lucas rolled onto his side and looked at her across the bed. Something in his face had gone quiet and serious in a way she hadn't seen before.

"Okay," he said simply.

They talked after that in low murmuring voices, the three of them lying tangled in the wrecked sheets in the dark, making the...