I Was His Wife, She Was His Everything novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: Shrimp
He didn't flinch.
"Name it."
"My name goes on nothing of yours," I said. "No house. No company. No account. Not one line."
"Rue..."
"I mean it. I married you with nothing and I'll marry you with nothing. If I ever walk out, I walk out with my coffee can and my half of a bar."
He looked at me for a long moment.
"That's not a condition," he said. "That's a punishment."
"It's not done."
He waited.
"Your name goes on our back wall," I said.
He knew which wall I meant.
Behind the register at Sallie's, the old boards were painted with names in white.
Sallie's husband had started it in 1983.
Every person Sallie decided had earned it got their name painted up there by her own hand.
There was no other rule.
Hers was at the top.
The fry cook's was halfway down.
Mine had gone up the morning after the fire, and I'd cried in the walk-in.
"You stay my barback," I said. "Through the summer people and the hurricanes. Until Sallie says you've earned it."
His face did something slow.
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