Chapter 15Lina
“I can’t take this and you know it! It’s too much.” Angrily, Lina shoved the twenty-dollar bill back at Emery.
“But I don’t have anything smaller. Lina, please, just put it in your pocket. Consider it a loan if you insist. Anyway, you have my phone number now and—”
“Yes, and I will keep that.” Again she attempted to hand the large bill back to Emery, but Emery shook her head.
“I can’t leave you here knowing you have zero money. Please, just hang on to it. You don’t have to spend it if you don’t want to.”
Lina pressed her lips together. “May I borrow your pen for a moment?”
Emery had written her number on the back of the receipt from the restaurant. Lina tore that part off and on the rest wrote out the following: I, Lina Gaugenrieder, hereby accept the loan of twenty an
