Page 108 of Safe With You

“Don’t tempt me.”

The lock on the front door clicked before he could answer.

Naomi stepped inside, sunglasses on top of her head and her purse hanging from one shoulder.

She took three steps into the bookstore before stopping.

Her eyes moved from Ellis and his camera to me standing beside the café table.

Then to my phone.

“Did I interrupt something?”

“No,” I said immediately.

“Pictures,” Ellis answered at the same time.

Naomi’s eyebrows rose.

I pointed toward the café. “Go to work.”

She looked at Ellis. “Has she been this mean to you all morning?”

“Worse.”

“Ellis.”

He laughed and started putting one of his lenses away.

Naomi shook her head as she walked behind the café counter.

“I leave y’all alone for an hour and come back to workplace hostility.”

“You weren’t scheduled to be here.”

“Still.”

I looked at the clock.

Eight fifty-eight.

“Wait. We’re almost done?”

“With you.”

“That sounded personal.”

“Photographically.”

Naomi snorted.

I turned toward her. “Nobody asked you.”

“I’m literally not saying anything.”

“That noise counted.”

Ellis laughed again.