He Loved Me in Secret, Until I Became Someone He Could Never Have novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: Pastry Box Bank
Tullio put the phone to his ear and smiled at me while it rang.
I stood up.
I set the Venturi tin box on the white tablecloth in front of his plate, very gently.
"The Keeper's compliments," I said. "Mazzola Savings and Trust opens tomorrow at nine. Same as always."
His smile flickered.
I walked out of his dining room in my mother's black dress.
Dario and Ennio followed me.
In the car, Ennio looked at me in the rearview mirror.
"You gave him the box?"
"It's empty," I said. "The slips are in my mother's oven."
Dario laughed for the first time in two days.
On Monday at nine, Mazzola Savings and Trust opened for business in the pastry shop next door.
The pastry chef moved his cannoli to one end of the case and gave us the other.
The tellers worked out of white cake boxes.
The tallest one kept the cash in a box marked SFOGLIATELLE.
The one with the hearing aid kept the deposit slips in one marked BISCOTTI.
The crossword teller made a sign out of the back of a pizza box and hung it in the window.
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