The Bad-ass Heiress Returns After Divorce novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Walking Out
I thought of the first day he came into the diner.
It was a Tuesday in October, and I was wiping the counter.
He ordered a pimento cheese sandwich and asked if I always worked the register alone.
I told him my mother was in the back and my cook had quit, and he stayed until close to help me stack chairs.
I had told that story at my own wedding.
Now it had a hand on it, and the hand was sitting four feet away, in a wicker chair, holding a cane.
"Did Talbot know?" I asked.
Nathan answered before Eleanor could. "No. His father would never have told him."
"His father took a loan to do it."
"His father took a loan and a favor," Eleanor said. "I did not tell him why."
I kept my eyes on Eleanor.
"I loved him," I said. "That part was mine."
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