Finally a night to myself. I left Jed and Nikki in charge of the kids, and I’m sitting at the coffee shop, The Grind, in downtown Sunrise Bay, looking up jobs. Although I get child support and alimony, I need extra income in order to move out of my parents’ house. Plus, I want to show my kids that Mom can stand on her own two feet.
A knock on the window startles me, and I turn to find none other than Hank Greene’s smiling face.
It’s been two weeks since we’ve had to interact. Both football games since then were away, and we seem to be on opposite schedules, him not attending the one I went to and vice versa.
He walks in, and the barista waves as though they’re familiar with one another.
“Hey.” Hank takes off his Greene & Sons hat—the company he took over from his father. “Can I sit?”
