I Bought His Love, Then He Became the Don novel · Chapter 72 of 76
Chapter 72: Walking Out
The restaurant on Taylor Street was never open on Sunday nights.
That Sunday the cook came in at four and put the big pot on anyway.
By seven every table in the front dining room was full again.
The baker and her sister-in-law, speaking now, mostly about me.
The barber and his wife. The bride and her husband.
The pants lady, the lady in the church hat, the widow from Bridgeport in her black coat.
At the window table sat Pasquale, my father, Rita and her brother.
The long table was down the middle of the room again, with seven chairs.
Six captains sat down the sides of it.
The seventh chair was at the head, and it was mine for one more hour.
Damiano didn't stand at the wall this time.
He stood next to my chair, with Maddie on his hip in her hat with the ears.
She'd grabbed his pencil from behind his ear and was trying to eat it.
The man from the waiting room stood by the front door, the way he always stood by doors.
I took the cream card out of my sewing basket and laid it on the tablecloth.
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