Chapter Forty-SixThat night, after Valerie had been seen by a doctor and then taken to her family, and Achille was behind bars at the station, Molly and Dufort had dinner at Chez Papa. They knew everyone would be bursting with questions and figured it was best just to see their friends all at once. As seemed to be a common thing in Castillac—when a bolt of good news hit, villagers instinctively wanted to be together—to talk it over, and most of all, to celebrate.
The chef made the sautéed mushrooms Molly loved, along with a potato and onion dish that was full of cream and a kind of cheese she had never tasted before that she found utterly magnificent. Lawrence was drinking Negronis of course, and Frances sat at the end of the bar accepting kisses from Nico whenever he had an extra moment.
