He Humiliated Me in Public, So His Regret Pays by the Tear novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: The Ledger
I asked him to come to the bakery after his shift on Friday.
He came at three, with his apron folded in his back pocket.
He stood in the doorway of Sokol's and waited to be told where to sit.
I had turned the sign to Closed.
I had put two cups of tea on the long counter.
The tin of Babcia's cards between them, and my phone beside the tin.
"Sit," I said.
He sat on the stool at the end.
I stayed standing.
"I'm going to tell you something," I said, "and I need you not to say anything until I'm finished."
"Okay."
"It's going to sound insane."
"After the last year," he said, "I'll take it."
I told him in the order that it happened.
I started on the sidewalk outside Kral Table, with the first deposit.
I told him there was a ledger and it counted a certain kind of sadness.
It paid me by the dollar when he sat in it and nothing when he fixed it.
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