My Best Friend Took My Wedding, So I Fed the Whole Town novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: Fifty Thousand

The Harbor Diner at noon on a Friday held thirty people, and I had never seen it so quiet.

I walked in with my hands in my coat pockets and the county sheet folded in my left one.

Lasse had offered to come.

I had told him no, because this one was mine.

Torvald sat in the corner booth under the framed photograph of the 1987 lake trout derby, with a cup of coffee and a slice of pie he was not eating.

His quilted vest was buttoned to the neck.

Birgit was not with him.

I slid into the opposite seat.

The waitress came with the pot and then thought better of it and went away again.

"Sunniva," he said. "Thank you for coming. I wanted to do this civilly."

"I'm civil."

"You've had a hard month. We all have." He turned his cup a quarter turn on the saucer. "I want you to know that nothing has been personal."

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