BELLO.
Bellis — ‘Let me know how things go when you’re done with the meeting. Do take care!’
I had reread the text more times than I could count since it came in after our call this morning. The grin it put on my face showed no signs of leaving.
I stumbled over a pebbled stone and nearly went down face first.
“I can see that happening,” Elliot said from beside me. “If you keep staring at your phone every two minutes, falling is only a matter of time.”
“Mind your business,” I grumbled, tucking the phone back into my pocket. “As though you don’t do worse whenever you’re away from Lois.”
He laughed and raised both hands. He had on a navy blue caftan. “Guilty. But I have never looked quite this undone.”
Undone. That was the word for it. Completely undone by my mate, in ways I hadn’t see
