Beau would never have believed it if someone had told her last year that she was about to meet a woman she’d fall completely in love with, much less that they’d be talking very seriously about moving in together in a year’s time. She might have punched anyone who told her that, actually, because that would have been preposterous .

And yet here she was, her own smile matching Karolina’s, wanting very much for this to happen and trying to remember how to breathe.

“You're really okay with this whole putting up with me all day every day situation,” she said, not a question so much as a slightly incredulous statement. “Because I'm really, really into it.”