The Favor by Adele Griffin EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Adele Griffin
- Language: English
- Genre: Friendship Fiction
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The woman appears just as I’m about to lock up. She’s a sudden force,
pushing so hard on the other side of the door that I have no choice but to
open it.
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“I’m in!” she says as she swooshes past me. She’s younger and more
glamorous than our usual customers, with coppery curls that offset the
drape of her pale cashmere coat. I note her diamond studs and the
irreverence of a slip dress, which is paired with chunky biker boots she
wears as easily as her astonishing beauty.
I check my watch. “Can I help you with something?”
“Yes! I’m here for your Ferretti dress. I saw it on your website.” She
plants her bumblebee-yellow Birkin—not a fake—on the counter. Her voice
holds the sweet and smoky flavor of the South.
“We keep our best things upstairs,” I say. “Our boss lives over the shop.”
But Barb is upstate at her home in Rhinebeck, and I tend not to enter her
apartment without asking.
“Ah, I figured it was your shop! You’ve got that whole retro classic
thing.” She waves a hand to encompass me.
“I’m about to lock up, but if you want to stop by tomorrow, I’ll have the
dress ready for you.”
“My flight’s in three hours. I’ll be quick—promise!”
I’ve been on my feet all day, and I really need to get home to Jacob, but I
can’t figure out how to say no to her expensive-looking teeth. I check my
watch again. “It’s late…”
“Sigh!”
Did she just say the word sigh? But she doesn’t move. I don’t move
either, and now we’re locked in a sudden game of upscale-retail chicken.
“Nora, I can hang out,” says Frankie, coming in from the storage room,
where he’s been unboxing padded hangers. He drops into the club chair
outside the dressing area. I give him the side-eye—it’s so late—but he
ignores it. “If you get me Barb’s key, I’ll take over.” Frankie and I work
most shifts together, so he knows all about my plans to swing by Whole
Foods and pick up ingredients for chickpea meat loaf. I read him the recipe
during our lunch break, despite his yawns. Dinner with my husband is my
favorite part of the day, and I’m not about to blow it for Kentucky Elle
Woods.
“Let’s get at it, then!” The woman tosses her coat onto the hook of our
hat tree, then spins in a circle, taking in the fusty charms of our thin-skinned
salmon silk carpet and cranberry velvet curtains. “I’ve lived six years in the
East Village and passed right by this shop, oh, must be a thousand times—
till now!’” She beams at me. As if I’m the key to her fate instead of an
attempt to escape it. “Such a sweet name for a vintage shop, too. I’ll Have
Seconds—how do you say no? I’m Evelyn.”
“Nora,” I say.
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