Chapter 2: What She Never Thought to Ask
Daniel didn't answer right away.
He straightened his jacket, folded his hands in front of him, and said very quietly, "Because this restaurant belongs to her."
The table went silent.
Vanessa's smile didn't fade slowly.
It collapsed.
Her eyes moved from Daniel to me, then back to Daniel, as if she were waiting for someone to tell her it was a joke.
"That's not possible," she said.
"Ms.
Carter has owned this restaurant for eleven years," Daniel said.
"I work for her."
One of Vanessa's friends set her wine glass down.
Another stopped laughing.
The third was staring at my apron like she was trying to read something written between the stitches.
Vanessa's voice came out smaller than before.
"You never said—"
"You never asked," I told her.
"You assumed."
Her cheeks, which had been red with anger a few minutes earlier, went pale.
She looked at the napkin still lying on the floor beside my shoe.
Then she looked at me.
"Emily, I didn't mean—"
"I know exactly what you meant," I said.
"You meant it every time in high school too."
Vanessa opened her mouth.
Then she closed it.
For the first time since she'd walked through my door that evening, she had absolutely nothing to say.
But what happened next — what she did in front of that entire dining room — was something I never expected.
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What Vanessa did next left the whole restaurant speechless.
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