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I pushed my bowl away. “You’re no help.”
“If you need me to open it, you should’ve just said so in the first place.” She swiped the envelope from beside me and pulled on the tab.
“Wait.”
She’d torn about an inch open.
She lifted a brow in awhat do you want me to dogesture.
I folded my arms on the table and dropped my forehead onto them. “Arghhh.”
“Anybody home?”
Dogs barked and bolted to the door. Except Sadie, who barely opened her eyes.
I snapped my head up at Teague’s voice.
He appeared in the doorway in a suit minus the tie. I still couldn’t get used to him dressed that way.
“Did you know the back door was unlocked?” He frowned.
“No. I’m sure I secured it.” I tried to think about the last time I’d taken the dogs out. “Do you mean not closed or not locked?”
“Not locked,” he confirmed.
“We never unlock it,” Miss Adeline said. “If we’re loading or unloading the van, we prop it open with a rock.”
“And that was before all the trouble started.” Worry flitted through me. IknewI hadn’t unlocked that door. I kept the key on me at all times.
“I only went out the front today.” Miss Adeline seemed as concerned as I was.
In the chaos of feeding dogs and walking them, anything could happen. But that was one thing we were diligent about. Locking the back door.
“What made you try it? You usually text.”
Teague glanced away. “I don’t know. I just . . . did.”
Why was he acting so weird?
“I guess I feel more at home here than anywhere else,” he said quickly. “I—I didn’t think. I just acted.”
A tinge of red colored his cheeks as he met my eyes. He wasn’t ashamed. Just embarrassed. I could see that. Even the littlest admissions of how someone felt could be hard. I understood that as well as anyone.
And this was beginning to feel like it was his home. When he wasn’t around, there was a hole where he should’ve been.
“Is that your way of saying you’re moving in?”
I slid farther down my chair and cut my eyes over to Miss Adeline. The woman was unafraid to say anything.
She shrugged at my incredulous look. “You won’t ask, so I’ll cut through the crap.”
That was one way of putting it.
Teague held up the duffle bag hidden behind him. “Maybe?”
I pointed back and forth between them. “I’m going to have to watch the two of you.”
“Please.” Miss Adeline waved me off. “You know I’m only looking out for you.”
