He Gave Her My Kitchen. I Took Everything. novel · Chapter 10 of 16
Chapter 10: Opening Night
I took both phones out of Katie's hands and looked closer.
There was no doubt.
Every speck of static matched.
"Where did she get it?"
"The staff group chat." Katie wiped her eyes with the back of her wrist. "I posted it when I was twenty weeks. Neil added Brittany to the chat her first day. She could scroll back to anything."
The grill cook leaned over her shoulder and swore.
"Post it. Right now. Put them side by side and tag her."
"No," I said.
Everyone looked at me.
"She'll say you faked it. She'll say you're jealous. She'll delete it and post a new one, and it'll be your word against her hundred thousand followers."
"So what, we just let her?"
"No." I handed Katie back her phone. "We let her say it to our faces. In front of people."
Katie stared at me for a long moment.
Then she nodded once.
"She'll come," she said. "She can't stay away from you."
We opened Saturday.
We still had no sign on the building.
Just the name, painted by hand on the glass by my pastry cook in gold leaf.
JUNE.
For my grandmother, who cooked in a diner in Ohio for forty years and never once had her name on the door.
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