He bit his bottom lip and shrugged. “I just need time to think about it and answer.”

“I will give you this time.”

He laughed. “Gosh, you are too kind.”

I smirked. “I know, and to answer your question, I will be back to work when you start at the security company.”

He played with his bottom lip, pinching it and driving me crazy. “Well, I guess I have held you up long enough.”

I flashed my eyes up to his and dipped my brows, confused. “But you have not. I attended to work during the day still.”

He smiled. “No, I mean, that we’ll be in different areas for work, so we won’t get to see each other as much as we do now.”

“I will have Death move his company close to my office.”

West snorted, laughed, and shook his head at me. “You’re unbelievable. You can’t do that.”

But I could. I would buy Death an office space if I had to. I rested my elbows on the table, my chin on one hand. “Do you not wish to see me in the evenings?”

His eyes flared. “No, that’s not what I meant.”

“So you like the sleeping arrangements?”

His cheeks pinked. “I do. Do you? I mean, if you think it’s too soon, I understand.”

“It is not I who is thinking of sleeping away from one another.”

“You don’t think this is all too soon then?”

“Do you?” I countered.

He shrugged, then shook his head. “I just worry that we’ll burn out.”

I sat back. “It is good then that we work apart during the day. But I would not like to sleep without you at my side, West. If this is something you do not wish to happen, please tell me.”

I doubted I would sleep if I did not have him close.

Time had been wasted when I’d fought my feelings for him to begin with, and I would regret it always. I did not want to waste any more time without West in my life.

“I… um…” His blush burned brighter. “I’d like to keep things as they are.”

“By sleeping at my side?”

“Yes,” he whispered.

“Good. We will talk about you moving in with me later.”

“Adrik, no… I can’t….” His mouth snapped shut. His brows dipped, and he stared down at his drink.

“It is something we are already doing, only at Lucas and Wreck’s house. I could do without seeing Wreck every night.”

“I was just thinking the same thing—not about Wreck, which I really don’t understand why you two can’t just get along. But I was thinking that we practically live with one another already.”

“Exactly. If you agree now, I will call Dimitri to send men to Lucas’s to collect your things.”