Chapter Nine
Words of Wisdom
There was a plate of scrambled eggs and bacon in my right hand, a coffeepot in my left, and a pencil over my ear falling out of my hair. Trying to juggle it all and probably looking pretty stupid, I passed by the fourth booth on my way to the one at the back of the diner. My eyes did a quick double take and I stopped almost spilling the plate. “Tony?”
“Angel, hi.” He was smiling and I blushed.
“What are you doing here?”
“Seeing you.”
“Yeah, like this?” I looked at my dirty apron, then remembered the bacon, eggs, and coffee. “I gotta serve this.”
“Sure.”
Thought I’d melt, but not because I wanted to. Tony was bad news.
Taking my morning break early, I sat in front of Tony Casals knowing it was totally weird, the two us drinking coffee in a diner like tw
