Christmas Recipe for Romance novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Christmas Eve
The glove stayed on the foil for a long breath.
Then the door opened the rest of the way.
Barton's wife stood in the light of the Hall's back kitchen in her cloth coat.
Her eyes were red.
She had not slept either.
"I sat in that window every Christmas Eve for twenty-seven years," she said to Ansel. "I watched Winifred open this door."
"I never knew what I was watching."
"Then you knew," said Ansel.
"I knew it was something that was not mine to ask about."
She looked at the pan under her hand.
"That's what this town has been good at, Mr. Cushman. Not asking."
She took her glove off the foil and put it in her pocket.
"The freight door is open on the north side," she said.
"The Boston chef has twelve cases of ice and nowhere to put them. He says you're welcome to the walk-in."
"He says what?" said Abel.
"He says he'd rather cook for a crowd that's hungry," said Barton's wife, "and I'm inclined to agree with him."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Christmas Recipe for Romance are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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