He Waited for Fifteen Years novel · Chapter 38 of 48
Chapter 38: Never a Baby
I didn't answer the text for an hour.
Nicholas made eggs I couldn't eat, and toast I could.
He didn't tell me what to do.
He sat across the kitchen table and drank his coffee and waited for me to decide.
"He wants me to ask," I said.
"Yes."
"He wants me to come to him."
"Yes."
"Then I'll pick where."
I typed it with my thumb.
Tuesday. Eight-thirty. The steakhouse on West 52nd. Corner booth.
The answer came back in under a minute.
I'll be early.
He was.
On Tuesday night the green leather booths were full of men in loosened ties, the way they'd always been.
Bryant sat in the back corner with a glass of red wine and a club soda with lime already poured across from him.
He'd ordered my drink before I arrived.
I sat down and pushed it to the side.
Nicholas took a stool at the end of the bar, under the brass lamp, where he could see us in the mirror.
He didn't pretend he was there for anything else.
Bryant glanced at him and smiled.
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