Dallas Called My Ex Rich and Barren, So I Found Out He Was Neither novel · Chapter 10 of 24

Chapter 10: Jefferson Boulevard

The corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Bishop Avenue held a brick building with a green awning and a tin ceiling.

A hand-lettered sign in the window said SHOE REPAIR, though the repairman had retired in the fall.

A young man from the leasing office stood on the sidewalk with a ring of keys.

Levi was already inside, holding the door.

"What is this?" I asked.

"Your shop."

I walked in slowly.

The floor was old pine, and sunlight lay across it in long bars.

A wall of cubbyholes still held a hundred wooden lasts.

In the middle of the room stood a butcher-block table longer than a bed, scarred by sixty years of knives.

The repairman had left it.

It was the best cutting table I had ever seen.

"I took the lease in your name," Levi said. "Six months, paid."

"Levi," I said.

"It's rent, not a gift," he said.

"I can't take your money."

"Then give me a dollar a month."

I turned around.

The young man from the leasing office was waiting with a clipboard.

Levi pulled a thick envelope out of his jacket and thumbed through a stack of twenties and hundreds.

He counted it onto the butcher block and handed the pile to the young man, who checked the total.

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