Chapter Six
Jie spent the rest of the day helping Megan in the store. A shipment of boxes came in and Megan gratefully accepted his offer to stack the things in the storeroom and put whatever was needed out onto the shelves, freeing her to help customers.
Around lunchtime, the woman she called Auntie Yee returned, laden down with homemade dumplings, lo mein and bean curd that she’d made just for him and Megan, her way of repaying him for his help.
At seven o’clock, he swept the floor and then helped her bring in the produce carts from outside. When they were finished, he retrieved his bag and jacket from the office so she could lock up the room and then followed her through the back and up the stairs to the apartment where she lived. The closer they came to the top of the steps, the mor
