Savoring his vengeance, Paul thought about letting Arthur stew a bit longer. But he knew his friend would not stop pestering him until he had the truth, so he decided to reply before getting back to work.
Arthur,
Were it not for my fear that my godson would end up spending more time with his godmother than he should, I would have done it. Fortunately for you, I’m just too nice for that kind of thing. I had you going, though, didn’t I?
Don’t worry, you’ll still get what’sreallycoming to you.
Paul
And with that, he devoted his night to the creation of a new chapter.
“Tell me, just how did you meet him?”
“Meet who?”
“Him,” Daisy said, sliding the book down the counter of the bar.
“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”
“And why not? I believed you when you turned up on my doorstep like a lost puppy, didn’t I? When you asked me to let you stay, and when you cried all night in my arms over what David had done to you, and when you said it was all his fault. Right?”
“I met him through your dating site,” Mia admitted, lowering her eyes.
“I knew I’d seen his face somewhere!” Daisy railed. “You’ve really got a lot of nerve, you know that?”
“It’s not what you think, I swear.”
“Oh, now she’s swearing! Spare me, please.”
Daisy walked past Mia and went to set the tables.
“Leave it,” said Mia, following her. “I can take care of that. You’ve got enough work to do in the kitchen.”
“I’ll do whatever I want in my own restaurant, thank you very much.”
“Am I fired?”
“Are you in love with him?”
“No, of course not!” Mia protested vehemently. “He’s just a friend.”
“What kind of friend?”
“Someone I can talk to, with no ambiguity at all.”
“On his end or on yours?”
“None at all, no gray zone. We agreed to that during our first dinner.”
“Ah, so you’ve dined together. When? The night you slept in your raincoat due to your debilitating retinal migraine?”
“No. We went to the Opera that night.”
“This just gets better and better!”
“Our dinner together was the night I told you I went to the cinema.”
“The Swede. I should have known. So you’ve been lying to me all this time?”
