Chapter Five
Dallas
Several hours later, I stood in the grocery store in Haven’s Bay, listening to Audrey as she chatted with Sherry Levesque. Sherry and her husband Emile had owned Haven’s Bay Grocery, along with a few other businesses in Haven’s Bay for as long as I could recall. Come winter, the population in Haven’s Bay thinned considerably. Those who stayed year-round were always happy to see other locals make an appearance in town. Though Audrey, like myself, didn't live here anymore, she'd been born and raised here so she would forever be considered a local. Sherry was peppering her with questions about her job, New York City, and how her fiancé was.
Audrey somehow managed to keep the conversation going without directly lying about the fact she’d just broken off her engagement. I
