Elara's POV
I didn't wait for him to answer.
I stepped off the stage with my award tucked under my arm and kept walking.
For a moment, I thought that would be the end of it. The evening would close behind me, and I could go home, sit in my small, bright kitchen, and finally be done with all of this.
"Elara."
He caught up to me in three strides.
Of course he did.
Orion had always moved like a man who'd never once questioned whether the world would make room for him.
"I'm setting everything else aside," he said, his voice low and steady. "Whatever happens between us, I'll get tested for Mia. I'll call Landon this week."
I stopped.
I'd waited a year to hear those words.
I'd asked him every way I knew how. Carefully at first. Then desperately. And finally with shaking hands as I sli
