Business as Usual (20 page)

Without
moving his head, he looked up with his eyes…taking me in… then finished setting
our plates before us. 

“Victoria.”

It
wasn’t a question. He knew exactly who I was. He glanced at the bruise under my
eye then looked away.

“Can
I get you anything else?”

When
he spoke his voice was a deep vibrato, his accent was more prominent than it
used to be. I suspected he’d spent much of the past six years back in Japan.

I
fumbled over what I should say next. O and I went to the same high school. I
used to tease him about his name. “O” was for “Omelet”.

“How
are you?”
I
probed. “How long have you worked here?”

I
couldn’t take my eyes off of his face. He looked younger than his twenty-five
years, but the aura emanating about him, something in his dark exotic eyes made
him seem older and wiser than he should be…

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