Page 199 of Safe With You
She caught it immediately. “What?”
“Nothing.”
“No, what?”
I shook my head. “You and Naomi spend too much time together.”
“That sounds like something she said.”
“It is.”
Luna smiled and reached for her menu again. “She’s a wise woman.”
“I wouldn’t go that far.”
“I’m telling her you said that.”
“Of course you are.”
She studied the menu for another moment before setting it down. “Okay, seriously. You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to.”
“I know.”
“I was just wondering.”
There was no edge to the question and no expectation sitting behind it. She was curious, and after everything we’d talked about over the last few weeks, I understood why.
I took a drink of coffee before setting the mug down.
“I haven’t been on many.”
Her expression changed slightly. “Since Elena?”
I nodded.
Luna already knew enough about my life that hearing my wife’s name from her didn’t catch me the way it might have once. Still, there was something different about talking about Elena while sitting across from a woman I’d kissed less than twelve hours ago.
“A few,” I told her. “Nothing that went anywhere.”
She traced one finger through the condensation on her glass. “Was that what you wanted?”
“What?”
“For them not to go anywhere.”
The question made me think.
“Sometimes.”
“And the other times?”
“I think I wanted to want more than I actually did.”
Luna looked at me for a moment, and I could see her turning that over before she nodded.
“I get that.”
There was enough behind those three words that I could ask what she meant. A few weeks ago, I probably would have.
