"Just as you suggested, Ethan, we’ll need to measure everything again from the beginning. Now, hurry and take off your clothes."

Ethan couldn’t hide his momentary shock at Lilith’s unexpected demand, made so suddenly in the middle of the day.

While he didn’t particularly mind undressing in front of her—since she was now, for all intents and purposes, his wife—there was still a time and place for these things.

Not only was the timing odd, but her insistence that he strip right here, in the dormitory space where both Eris and Isabel were also present, left him unsure of how …