POV: BRIGAIL
They started with Fiordilatte because it was the easier thing.
She wouldn't take the head chef position. He argued. She held. They went back and forth for ten minutes before he agreed to let Marco choose a replacement for Selah from the existing line cooks. Brigail would be promoted to line cook. Actual merit. Her own work.
She also asked him to reconsider Selah's termination.
He said no with a finality that told her not to push that particular door. She let it go.
They sealed it with a kiss that went long enough to require some effort to stop.
They ordered pizza. Neither of them cooked. It arrived in a flat box and they ate it on her old couch, which Eli sat on with the expression of someone trying very hard not to say something about the upholstery.
One slice left.
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