Page 181 of Safe With You

I held out my hand.

He ate one while looking directly at me.

“You’re irritating.”

“I was minding my business. You texted me.”

“That doesn’t mean you get to hold it over my head.”

“I stated a fact.”

“Give me a fry, Ellis.”

He slid the basket toward me.

“Thank you.”

The words were out before I thought about them.

His eyebrows lifted.

Mine did too.

Then he smiled.

I took two fries instead of one.

“That’s greedy.”

“Consider it interest on your tab.”

“My tab again?”

“Still delinquent.”

He shook his head, but he was smiling when he reached for his burger.

I settled farther into the booth, reminding myself that this wasn’t a date. I’d decided that while I was changing clothes. Dates required planning or, at minimum, both people knowing they were going on one.

This was just Ellis saying he was getting food and telling me to come with him, which was different.

Probably.

“What?”

I looked up.

“What?”

“You’re staring.”

“I am not.”

“You are.”

“I was thinking.”

“About me?”