DAMIEN'S POV
James confirmed the Maya situation on a Tuesday phone call in mid-May.
He brought it up himself, which meant he'd been waiting to tell me and had finally decided it was time.
"I'm seeing Maya Reeves," he said. Directly, the way James did things.
"I know."
A pause. "Elara told you."
"Maya told Elara. Elara told me. You have approximately zero secrets between the four of us."
"That's concerning."
"How's it going?"
"Good. She's difficult in ways I find interesting rather than exhausting."
"That sounds right for Maya."
"She told me upfront that if I hurt Elara by proxy she'd make my professional life very uncomfortable."
"She said the same thing to me at the wedding."
"She means it."
"I know. That's why I like her."
We talked for another twenty minutes about Cross I
