Katie ducked out at six and Kiko waited for Dom to show up, thinking he wasn’t going to stay open past eight tonight. During the winter, when the days were darker earlier and longer, and the weather not as good, Kiko’s customers tended to either come earlier or skip showing up at Yolks on You altogether. Already the after-school crowd was gone, at home cooking and doing homework with their older children. Kiko had little to do.
He went over his records for the day, wishing he’d brought a book. He got most of his reading done while out of work, but with everything going on lately, he hadn’t bothered to bring in a new book. After he toyed with asking Dom to pick him up something at the library he put his phone away and decided to sweep the store.
“Don’t you ever get bored?” asked Dom when
