A year later, Max arrived home from work with a bag from the pricey grocery store downtown and an expression she couldn't quite read, while Grace was arguing with her laptop.
The woman said, "Please tell me you didn't spend our entire food budget on truffle oil again," without raising her eyes from her screen.
"I didn't spend our entire food budget on truffle oil."
"But you did spend some of our food budget on truffle oil."
"A reasonable amount of our food budget is on truffle oil."
When Grace looked up at last, she saw Max unpacking ingredients that most certainly weren't from their typical frugal shopping excursions.
Fresh lobster, authentic saffron, what appeared to be wagyu beef, and, yes, a small bottle of truffle oil that likely cost more than their monthly Netflix subscriptio
