CHAPTER ELEVEN
SHE STOOD THERE, staring at Derek, not believing how her luck was going. It was Monday. She was supposed to be able to go through the entire day without seeing him, and yet, this was the second time she had ran into him. The locations of the chance encounters didn’t even make sense. First, he turns up at the costume shop, and now, he stood in front of her at Six Pence Pub, offering to share his table with her. He didn’t even live near this part of town.
He gave her his best smile. “It’s not like they have tables for only one person. Now, I have a perfectly good chair just sitting here not being used. Then, if they give you a table meant to accommodate two people, there’s another unused chair. So, you see, you’d really be helping them out, as well as saving me from eating a
