Page 316 of Safe With You
She nodded. “She didn’t know.”
Of course she didn’t.
I heard Ellis come into the room behind me.
“You took this?”
His eyes moved to the photograph.
“Yeah.”
“She didn’t know?”
A smile touched his mouth.
“Not until after.”
I looked at it again.
“She looks happy.”
“She was.”
No hesitation.
Just truth.
“What was she laughing at?”
“Me.”
I turned toward him. “You?”
“I fell.”
A laugh slipped out of me.
“You fell?”
“Almost.”
“That’s not the same thing.”
“It is when somebody gets a picture of you halfway to the ground.”
“Where’s that picture?”
“Deleted.”
“Convenient.”
“Very.”
I looked back at Elena.
Now I could almost see the moment around the photograph.
Ellis behind the camera.
