My Power Showed Me His Cheating An Hour Earlier novel · Chapter 28 of 32
Chapter 28: The Shop in South Philly
I unfolded the scrap of paper on the worktable.
My mother's handwriting, the way it looked before her hands shook. Round and fast and leaning forward.
"Wolf Street. Short tulle, eleven roses. Paid me two dollars."
I read it out loud.
Maggie's mouth fell open.
"Mom grew up on Wolf Street," she said. "She always said a girl down the block made her veil. Some kid. Nineteen years old."
"My mother was nineteen."
"She said the girl wouldn't take money, and Mom made her take two dollars anyway, and then cried in the mirror for an hour."
I turned around and looked at the frame over my register.
The loan receipt. And behind it, the old soft two-dollar bill.
First veil. She cried when she saw herself.
Maggie followed my eyes.
She saw the bill. She read the pencil on the corner.
Then she sat down on the floor of my shop, in her chef's coat, and put her hands over her face.
Wells came out of the cooler with a bucket of mums.
He looked at his sister on the floor. He looked at me.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of My Power Showed Me His Cheating An Hour Earlier are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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