ChloeWe actually got to Adornetto’s before Dana. I wanted to make sure our tables were far enough apart that she wouldn’t have any reason to know we were there too.
Citing his usual aversion to eating out as a waste of money, Jesse wouldn’t agree to come along with Faye and I and Marco was closing the store. That left Faye and me on our own to do a little matchmaking, if an intervention became necessary.
I half rose from my seat and peaked toward the door at the sound of each entrance until I spied Dana coming in.
“This is silly,” Faye was saying. “We can’t hear anything from here, so why are we...” She trailed off as she looked toward the back of the room.
I turned to see what she was seeing in time to catch a quick glimpse of Mel after she’d come through from the kitchen.
“That’s od
