He Humiliated Me in Public, So His Regret Pays by the Tear novel · Chapter 31 of 32
Chapter 31: The Counter
Babcia turned eighty-five on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and she insisted on being fed at Sokol's.
"It is my recipe," she said. "I should eat it where it is served."
We closed at two and pushed the tables into one long line down the middle of the shop.
Marta hung paper lanterns from the hood.
Her plumber, a quiet man, stood by the register holding a fern.
Dominik's mother sat at the head of the table with her handbag in her lap, next to Babcia.
The two of them had spent twenty minutes discussing the failings of the parish priest.
Dominik was in the kitchen.
He had come at nine that morning to bake his own pear tart in my oven.
I had allowed it after three weeks of arguing.
He wore a clean apron.
He did not wear a chef's coat.
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