After Seeing the Comments, I Forced the Male Lead to Love Me novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Like This
On Sunday we had lunch in the family room, with the windows open and the table set for six.
Nobody had assigned the seats. Everyone sat where they liked.
Noelle sat next to Dennis, with her paint-stained fingers hooked through his sleeve.
He pretended not to notice and passed her the salt before she asked.
"They're sickening," Pearl announced to the soup. "I'd rate them, but I'd run out of stars."
"You've been rating them for weeks," said Noelle.
"Four and a half each. And I'm told it's catching."
Dennis went red to the roots of his beard.
Tobias sat at my right, with his sleeves rolled to the elbow and one hand under the table on my knee.
The house was loud, and I had missed it without knowing.
The cook brought in lemon tarts from the bakery on Delancey.
"Pearl," I said. "You've rated everybody in this room, many times."
"I have."
"You gave me a four at the airport. A four and a half in the dress shop."
"I did."
I put my fork down.
"Do you have a number for today?"
Pearl took off her glasses.
She cleaned them on her napkin, at her leisure, and put them on again.
She looked around at all of us, her grandson and his wife, the illustrator and the driver, and the empty chair at the end of the table that no one had suggested filling.
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