#Chapter 43: It’s a Date

Maeve POV “A… date?” I repeated, stunned, not entirely sure I heard him correctly. However, I could not deny the somersaults my heart and stomach made upon hearing those words, nor as I caught that warm glaze in his eyes. “You want to take me out… on a date?” Was this what he had been planning in the hours he was gone? I had spent all this time worrying that our relationship—or whatever I could call it—was at risk of falling apart. I had thought that he finally realized that he did not want to spend the rest of his life with a pregnant girl he hardly knew a thing about, nor had any business getting himself involved with. I thought he was ready to call everything off. And here he was…. doing the exact opposite. “Of course, I do,” Xaden replied with a bemused, anxious smile, cocking his head to the side. “What did you think I was going to say?” “Y-You were gone for hours… I-I thought you were…” The rest of the words stalled in my throat. He rubbed the back of his head. “I’m sorry