Ruined By My Stepbrother novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: Under My Own Name
"Turning it in where?" I said.
"To my editor. Tomorrow morning. It runs Sunday."
"What runs Sunday?"
"The last one," he said. "Under my own name."
I stared at him across the hydrangeas.
"Since when?"
"Since you put your apron on my knives."
Three trips to Philadelphia.
My grill cook in the alley, saying "All of them."
"You don't get to decide that because of me," I said.
"I'm not deciding it because of you. I'm deciding it because it's true."
I got in my truck.
I didn't say goodbye, and I didn't tell him not to.
On Friday, Frankie handed me a list on a sheet of order paper.
Thirty-four names. Every one that cancelled.
On Saturday we did forty-one covers on a night that should have been a hundred.
A man at table two asked Frankie, loud enough for the room, whether the scallops came with a stepbrother.
She told him they came with a check, and brought it.
On Sunday at six in the morning, Frankie texted the whole crew.
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