_Nathan’s POV_
I didn’t expect Miles to test the new arrangement the very next day.
Maybe that was stupid. He wasn’t the type to wait once a door had been opened. Still, when his message came through just after my second class, it caught me off guard.
**Miles:**
I’m outside the library. Walk with me.
Not tonight.
Not later.
Now.
I stared at the screen long enough that the person next to me at the table glanced over. I locked the phone, packed my laptop, and left before I could talk myself out of it.
He was exactly where he said he was, near the side steps of the library, bag over one shoulder, looking like he had all the time in the world. When he saw me, he pushed off the railing and started walking without asking whether I was ready.
I fell into step beside him.
“This is yo
