My new routine at the research center didn't go unnoticed.
Whispers started swirling among the staff.
"Lucas, our golden bachelor, finally sniffing around a she-wolf?" one colleague teased.
"Don't start rumors," another shot back.
"She's just the new assistant, assigned to work with him, not his mate."
The chatter died as I walked up, everyone suddenly engrossed in their work.
I'd been at the research center a while now and didn't care much for gossip.
I dove into my tasks instead.
Lucas, though, started noticing something in our work together. My knowledge of Belvaria ran deeper than his, a seasoned archaeologist's. It baffled him, and I caught his probing looks growing sharper.
I didn't think much of it.
To me, finding someone in this world I could share those ten years with wa
