Page 244 of Safe With You

Luna: Okay. Just checking.

I stared at those last two words a little longer than necessary.

Just checking.

Maybe that was all she was doing.

But the question stuck with me.

I’d told her Wednesday that we’d be there. We hadn’t talked about changing plans since, and I hadn’t given her any reason to think we wouldn’t show up.

Still, she checked.

I didn’t know what to make of that yet.

Maybe nothing.

Either way, I’d told her we’d be there.

So we were going to be there.

Mila came back into the kitchen with her jacket bundled in her arms instead of actually wearing it.

“Ready.”

“You gonna put that on?”

“No.”

“Then why did I tell you to get it?”

She shrugged. “In case I get cold.”

I stared at her.

She stared back.

I decided I didn’t have enough time.

“Come on.”

I grabbed the dessert and started toward the door.

“What about the grown-up drink?”

I stopped.

Mila pointed toward the counter.

I looked at the wine.

Then at her.

Then back at the wine.

I grabbed it.

“Now can we go?”