Page 366 of Safe With You

He kissed the top of my head, and I closed my eyes.

Tomorrow morning, I’d have to go home before work and get everything I’d left there.

But that was tomorrow.

Tonight, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

“Just walk toward me. And don’t look at the camera.”

They made it three steps before she looked directly into the lens.

I lowered the camera. “What’d I just say?”

She laughed. “I’m sorry.”

Her husband shook his head. “She’s been practicing poses for two weeks.”

“Shut up.”

“I got emails.”

“You better delete them.”

“I’m keeping them for evidence.”

She bumped her shoulder against his, and he laughed.

I lifted the camera again.

There.

I caught the smile she gave him before she remembered I was watching.

Click.

Then the one he gave her back.

Click.

“Keep walking.”

They did, slower this time.

“Don’t look at me.”

“That’s hard when you’re pointing a camera at us.”

“You hired me.”

Her husband laughed. “I told you.”

“Whose side are you on?”

“His right now.”

She looked at him. “You’re supposed to be on mine.”

“I’ve been on yours for ten years.”