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“Off with your head, pleb. Nope. Try again.”
Sam squinted an eye as he ran through options in his head.
“God, don’t hurt yourself,” she said, laughing lightly while soothing a finger along his forehead. The action was light and tender, and he considered snuggling with her again.
“Does it have something to do with love?” A brief thought flashed through his mind about how he didn’t want her in a love house unless he got to be there as well. He shoved the unsaid commentary into the dark depths where it belonged.
Luna laughed. “That’s a good guess but no.” She continued trailing a finger on him, drawing a line from his shoulder, across his bicep and ending at his hand. “A red door means safe harbor, a sanctuary. Welcome.Youwould be welcomed.”
He wasn’t sure if she was referring to him specifically with such an invitation or tossing a generalyouinto the conversation. He didn’t consider the conversation serious and decided to keep it that way. “It’s nice you at least have a door to welcome you home. I’m happy for you.”
Luna drew her hand away. “You don’t want to go to a place like that?”
He didn’t know how to answer this and found himself muttering, “I don’t know. I have a lot going on right now. Probably best if you just stick with the door for now. It’s more reliable.”
She sat up and fumbled through the blankets, searching for her clothes. “Well, good to know.” She slipped into her underwear in short jerky motions.
“Where are you going?” Sam wasn’t sure what was happening right now, but he wasn’t ready to let her go yet, not when she was clearly miffed about something.
“Where do you think? To find moving boxes.” She scooped the rest of her clothes, attempting to dress and march from his bedroom at the same time.
Sam scrambled from the bed, grabbing a pair of boxer briefs from his dresser and almost tripping in the process. “Do you need help moving your stuff out?”
“No! I don’t need your help ever. I can handle it myself.”
He threw his hands in the air. “What the hell is wrong with you?”
She was dressed at this point and flicked her hair from her shoulder. “You just make me so goddamn mad.” The door slammed behind her as she departed.
This time, he believed her.
Chapter Twenty-Six
The next timeSam saw Luna, for more than a minute, was when she and Ross were carrying things from her apartment to the moving truck. Zabe abandoned him to run to her, wrapping her arms around Luna’s waist.
“Why are you leaving? Don’t you like being neighbors with us? Is it because Sam won’t put in a pool?” The kid’s questions cracked with obvious sorrow.
“Of course, I like being your neighbor. That’s not why I’m leaving.”
“But why? You just moved here.”
“I’m not moving that far. We’ll still be in the same zip code.”
“So, you’ll come back to visit us?”
Luna patted her. “I don’t know.”
Zabe ran a hand across her nose. “Can’t you at least say, ‘we’ll see,’ like all the other adults who don’t want to say no?”
“Tell you what. You keep an eye on the place and, if it’s okay with your dad, you can someday come visit my new house and hang out with me and Duchess. We can eat pizza while you tell me all the gossip I’ve missed.”
Zabe’s face brightened. “Really? Okay, I’m going to ask Dad right now.” She ran to her apartment.
Luna made brief eye contact with Sam.
“You guys need any help?” he asked.
“Nope,” she replied in a hard tone.
