You've Been Replaced, First Love novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Alone at the Door
Maddox drove us to Bruce Street in ten minutes, with one hand on the wheel and the other on my knee.
Neither of us said anything.
I had put my overalls on inside out.
The roll-up door was open.
The cream board leaned against the bench with KOWALSKI SIGNS still drying.
My father sat on a stool by the pegboard with his Thermos in both hands.
Across from him, on an overturned paint bucket, sat a woman I almost didn't know.
She wore a plain gray coat and no lipstick.
Her hair was in a rubber band.
Annora Bremer looked up at me, and for once she did not stand.
"I told her to come in out of the wind," Ralph said. "She was on the sidewalk twenty minutes."
"Dad."
"I gave her coffee." He lifted his chin at the mug in her lap. "She hasn't had a drop."
"I'd like to talk to Ellory alone," Annora said.
"No," said my father, mildly. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm in my own shop."
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