Page 143 of Safe With You

“Daddy.”

I looked up from my food. “Yeah?”

“Can we go to the bookstore?”

“Right now?”

“No.”

“Then when?”

She thought about it. “Later.”

“Later today?”

“Yeah.”

“You have books.”

“I know.”

“You have books you haven’t read.”

“I read them.”

“All of them?”

She hesitated.

I lifted an eyebrow.

“Most.”

“Mila.”

“I need another dragon book.”

“You don’t need another dragon book.”

Her face fell into the kind of expression she’d perfected sometime around four years old.

I looked away and took another bite.

“No.”

“Daddy.”

“No.”

“Please?”

I kept eating.

She moved closer until she was standing directly in front of me.

“Miss Luna might have another one.”

There it was.