**Home is couch**

CAMILLA'S RESIDENCE.

She closed the door behind him without a word and walked back toward the kitchen, bare feet brushing lightly over the tiled floor. The only sound was the soft bubbling of the pot on the stove and the digital hum of the game still running on her phone, screen paused mid-conversation with a pixelated prince who’d been trying to confess his love before the doorbell interrupted everything.

Ethan stood near the door, glancing around the apartment like it ...