Chapter 30

“What do you mean you want me to move in with you?” Eve asked Arec, pulling away from him.

He smiled at her and repeated, “I want you to move in with me. From what’s been happening to you, I don’t think you are safe living here on your own.”

She stared at him with her mouth hanging open.

Finally, she shut her mouth and shook her head.

“I don’t think so, Arec,” she told him. “What would everyone at work think if we started walking into the office together after I’ve been there for such a short time?”

He frowned and shook his head.

“I don’t care what other people think,” he told her.

“Not even your mother?” Eve asked, looking at him with a raised eyebrow.

“Especially my mother,” he told her.

Eve frowned as she looked at him.

“I don’t know,” she told him. “It’s so sudden.”

He put his finger under her chin and tilted her face toward his.

“Unless I am mistaken, you feel the same way I do,” he said.

She stared into his eyes before nodding.

“I do,” she said. “I’m just sca