My Husband Lent Me to His Best Friend for the Night, and the Man He Chose Was the One I Hated Most novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Easter Dough
Kali's POV
The week before Easter the taverna smelled of orange peel, mahleb and burnt sugar from five in the morning until the last order went out the back.
I made tsoureki on the steel table with Aris at the next station.
We made forty braids for the church lunch, and the dough rose in tubs along the whole wall, under dish towels, and the old oven ticked and ticked.
I had stopped being sick in the mornings.
My hands were steady with the flour.
I braided three strands over and under with my mother's wrist, and I did not think of anything.
At nine the first of the old men came to the door.
He stood on the step with his cap in his hand.
He was seventy at least, in a brown coat, and I knew him from the head table at the wedding supper.
He had the biggest produce stall on the north side of Fulton Market.
He did not come in.
He stood and looked at me across the flour.
"Kalliope Vrettos," he said.
"Mr. Manolakis's wife."
"Yes," I said.
I did not stop braiding.
"It's said in the market that there are papers," he said.
"It's said that a girl found something in the house.
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