You Should Have Known (2014)
““I want you to know,” he said gruffly, “that it is not the wish of the board that we speak to each other.” Then, as if this were all that needed to be said, he picked up the menu and started examining it.
The menu was vast. The place he had chosen was the Silver Star on 65th and Second, a coffee shop so eternal that she had once broken up with a boyfriend in one of the booths on the other side of the room. There was a long countertop where you could get a serious, if stodgily old-fashioned,... drink (like a highball or a gimlet) and, just inside the door, a standing glass case full of revolving cakes and colossal éclairs and napoleons.
Grace said nothing in response; she didn’t think it was necessary, and also she didn’t want to be antagonistic if she didn’t have to be. He was doing her a favor, even if his board hadn’t objected. That he was seeing her at all—the wife of a former employee, a terminated employee!—she supposed she appreciated.MoreLess
The menu was vast. The place he had chosen was the Silver Star on 65th and Second, a coffee shop so eternal that she had once broken up with a boyfriend in one of the booths on the other side of the room. There was a long countertop where you could get a serious, if stodgily old-fashioned,... drink (like a highball or a gimlet) and, just inside the door, a standing glass case full of revolving cakes and colossal éclairs and napoleons.
Grace said nothing in response; she didn’t think it was necessary, and also she didn’t want to be antagonistic if she didn’t have to be. He was doing her a favor, even if his board hadn’t objected. That he was seeing her at all—the wife of a former employee, a terminated employee!—she supposed she appreciated.MoreLess
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