DRASA POV
Maya was tying her scarf, swaying her hips lightly to the slow rhythm humming from my phone when my screen lit up with a message from Cassian.
“On my way. Be ready.”
I stared at the text for longer than I should have, my thumb frozen above the screen like it suddenly weighed a ton.
My heart skipped a beat, not because his message was unexpected but because now it felt real.
Real in a way that wrapped around my ribs and pulled a little too tight.
“You good?” Maya asked, tilting her head toward me. “You’ve gone all weird and quiet.”
“Cassian’s coming,” I murmured, trying to keep my voice calm and not sound like my stomach was doing cartwheels. “He’s picking us up.”
She raised one brow, curious. “Picking us up?”
I hesitated. “It was supposed to be the two of us. I asked i
