"Because you don't like to be tied down? You're a free spirit and a bit of a playboy? Although I have to say just lately you've been a real homebody and not gone anywhere other than work, which is a little strange, but, then again, I haven't felt like going anywhere either." Icene smiled, "So do you want me to move in? Permanently like? We do have a couple of advantages, Ii mean, we should have no worries over air conditioning in the summer, so long as you keep the apartment warm all winter?"
She almost didn't dare to breathe, in case he changed his mind, but oh dear lord, she'd never thought this day would come to start with! Her mother would be horrified, but her dad ecstatic, and Masai would shrug and point out that it was about bloody time in his usual way (privately to Icene, in public he'd be all pleased as punch).