He Called My Inheritance a Forgery in Front of Three Hundred Guests, Then Took Every Blow Meant for Me novel · Chapter 35 of 40
Chapter 35: After Close
"No," I said.
He didn't answer.
He took his apron back off the counter and tied it on again, because the grill was full and the fishermen were sitting back down.
"Two over easy," somebody called. "Since he's staying."
So I stayed too.
I sat at the end of the counter through the whole breakfast rush.
The woman with the coffeepot filled my cup without asking, four times.
A trooper from Maine came in at seven and asked me what I'd seen, and I told him in three sentences.
He wrote them down and ate a muffin standing up and left.
Kendrick worked the grill.
He was good at it.
Of course he was.
He could flip an egg one-handed without breaking the yolk, and he knew every order before they finished saying it.
He didn't look at me once.
At least, I never caught him.
But my eggs came out without my asking, the way I'd eaten them since I was ten, scrambled soft with too much pepper.
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