You've Been Replaced, First Love novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Fiancee
The shop went so quiet that I could hear the clock over the door.
The cooks stopped counting.
The young server held his envelope against his chest.
Maddox didn't move.
"Hello," he said at last, the way you greet a delivery you didn't order.
The woman in the doorway let go of her suitcase handle.
"You look the same," she said. "I'd forgotten about the beard."
"It's the same beard."
"I'm in town for a few days. I wondered if we could talk alone."
"Anything you've got can be said here," Maddox said.
She glanced around the room at eleven strangers and then at me.
I was holding my envelope marked RECEIVED IN FULL.
I didn't know where to put my face.
"Is this...?" she said.
"This is Ellory."
"Hi, Ellory." She had a kind voice, which made it worse. "I'm sorry to walk in like this."
"It's a public shop," I said.
"It really isn't, though," said the sous chef, from behind me, to himself.
She turned back to Maddox and spoke quickly.
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