Page 399 of Safe With You

“Can’t take it back.”

She walked out of the kitchen. “Watch me.”

I laughed.

“Where you going?”

“To sit down and wait for my food.”

“Our food.”

“The way you’re acting, yours might not make it.”

I followed her into the living room, where she took her usual spot on the couch and reached for the remote. Before I could sit down, she stretched her legs across the cushions.

“Move.”

“You have a whole couch.”

“And I want this part.”

I shook my head but sat anyway, lifting her feet into my lap.

Luna turned on the TV like the argument was settled.

Maybe it was.

I rested my hand over her ankle while she started scrolling through something for us to watch.

Nothing about the room looked different than it did that morning.

Neither did she.

I liked that too.

Naomi made a noise from behind the counter that had me looking up from the invoice in front of me.

“What?”

She didn’t answer.

“Naomi.”

“Hold on.”

I stared at her. She was standing over a stack of mail with one hand pressed against her mouth.

“What happened?”

“Nothing.”

“Then why are you standing like that?”

Her eyes lifted to mine.

“It came.”

I frowned. “What came?”