“What? The one that just came in? He didn’t introduce himself.”
“I didn’t think he would. Just wondered if she called him by name at all.”
“Nah. Why?”
“He looks familiar, but I don’t know where I would have seen him before.”
“If you say so. They don’t look like the type that would come in here on a regular basis.”
“Yeah. I guess not.” Of course, she wasn’t the type to come to a restaurant like this either, at least not when she wasn’t in her uniform. She watched the couple throughout the evening. They smiled at each other often and he made her laugh. She ordered wine, he ordered soda. Try as she may, Amber could not put a name to the face.
Emily felt her first twinge of doubt as she set foot in the restaurant. The whole way over she’d been rehearsing what she would say, but now she f
