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, c*****g h
