“Is that all you want?”

At that, he reaches for me, and pulls me toward him so that we’re standing face to face. “Well, I want you, but I didn’t think I had to say that,” he says. “In whatever capacity I can have you, for however long you want me, I’m yours.”

I smile, rolling onto the balls of my feet to kiss him softly.

“Yana Crebesti,” I murmur against his lips. “No matter what comes.”