— hugged me warmly. “You didn’t need to pick such a fancy place, Natalie.”
“I didn’t,” I said.
He glanced at Serena, who waved us over. “I thought so.”
Chris’s mother Tarryn kissed my cheek and asked about work. Neither she nor Henry had ever called me names, but they’d watched me pay enough times to know how it worked.
I turned to Chris. “Are you going continue reading …