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I signed the rent check and went looking for my bag of chocolate chips. Work could wait until the cookies cooled.
CHAPTER46
Alexa
It had beentwo weeks now since I left Evan—I’d kept track. He’d stopped calling and sending flowers. I should have been relieved that he had accepted my decision, but somehow it didn’t help.
I was behind the counter of the deli after the lunch rush had subsided. I wiped down the counter on my side, next to Uncle Luca, who was refilling the chicken-salad pot at his station.
“Don’t forget to check for gum,” he told Janice, who was cleaning the tables.
“On it,” she replied.
Why some people thought sticking their used gum under tables was funny eluded me.
“How are you doing on chicken salad?” my uncle asked me.
I lifted the lid. “Mine’s fine.” I flipped the rag I was using to clean the counter.
“It’s a damn shame,” he said.
I looked over to find him still spooning chicken salad from the large container into the small pot. “What is?”
He finished filling the pot and put it back in its place. “That McAllister boy breaking up with you.”
I could’ve kicked myself for falling for his trick to get me talking. But I couldn’t take the reputation hit that I’d been dumped. My uncle would spread it far and wide. “You have bad information.” I put the rag down and faced him. “I broke up with Evan, not the other way around.”
“Why would you do a fool thing like that?” he asked.
I’d asked for these hours specifically so I could avoid my sister nagging me to realize my mistake and call Evan. “Maybe.”
“Maybe what?”
“Maybe you should date him if you think he’s so wonderful.”
His jaw dropped.Didn’t expect that, now did you, uncle?
“Are we done here?” I asked.
He burst out laughing. “Alexa, I’m glad still you have your sense of humor, but he’s not my type.”
He put the spoon back in the chicken-salad pot and added the lid. “The guy’s richer than God, a handsome devil—from what your aunt tells me, not that I’d know nothing about that—and he comes from a good family.” He shook his head.
I didn’t want to continue this conversation, but I wouldn’t let it end on a note as false as that. I put the rag down and my hand went to my hip. “How can you say that after with his father did to Daddy?” I asked with attitude in my eyes.
He carried the chicken-salad container back to the refrigerator. “You college kids think you know everything, but you miss the most basic stuff.”
“Like what?” I asked. I was the first one in my family to go to college and damned proud of it.
He closed the refrigerator. “Do you want to know? The real story?”
“Yes,” I said before I realized I’d walked into his trap again.
“Janice, can you handle things for a few minutes?”
She picked up her cleaning basket. “You got it.”
Uncle Luca motioned, and I followed him through the door to the back and into the office.
