J.R. Pace > Quotes

“believed nobody knew gratitude until they’d seen a grateful Frenchman. She’d finally had to put her foot down and explain, in her clumsy French, that if he didn’t let her pay for her meals, she wasn’t going to be able to keep coming to eat here. But she hadn’t been able to stop him from rushing her through the line whenever he saw her. She looked around her surreptitiously, hoping the owner was in the kitchen or, even better, taking the evening off. Maybe she could eat and leave before he saw her. Her gaze landed on”
― J.R. Pace, Mountain Secret