Page 225 of Safe With You

Whether the photographer Naomi recommended at the last possible second would give me anything worth using.

I knew the answers now.

Rachel came back.

So did everybody else.

And Ellis⁠—

I stopped there.

Because Ellis didn’t just come back.

Somewhere between that night and this one, he became someone I expected to.

“Miss Luna.”

I looked down at Mila.

“What?”

“You like my daddy.”

My head turned so fast I almost hurt myself.

Jacob looked at her.

“Mila.”

“What?”

“You can’t just say stuff like that.”

“Why?”

He shrugged. “I don’t know. You just can’t.”

I pressed my lips together.

Apparently, Jacob and I were on the same page.

Mila looked at me.

“You do, though.”

I lowered my voice. “We’re listening to the lady read.”

“That means yes.”

“Mila.”

She smiled.

I looked toward Ellis.

Thankfully, he was too far away to have heard any of this.

Tasha wasn’t.