Paige Cooper — The Secret Behind Table Four
It wasn’t a promise of romance or lifelong loyalty.
It was a boundary both of us could understand.
When I got home, I put the remaining pastries on Elena’s kitchen table with a note: TAKE THE LEMON TART.
I KNOW YOU WILL ANYWAY.
PART 21
A year after table four, Malcolm asked me to help open a second café.
It would be smaller than the first, with a counter facing the street and a training program for people returning to work after unemployment or illness.
“Are you sure about the training program?” I asked.