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Chapter 286: Just Doing my Job
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Lila could hear the two men discussing their feelings in her office.
She sat there in the hallway after righting where Emmet had put the table that had been outside, considering that he had literally brought it inside the building and left it in front of the open door. He at least had the sense to put the uneaten food upstairs, but Lila couldn’t help but be annoyed that he hadn’t shown the same dedication to her much more valuable table.
She dragged through the hallway and lifted it up over the boundaries and the main counter of the café, crawling underneath the lift up flap to get to the other side, before pulling the table down. Wiping off all the dust and dirt, repolishing the surface and laying the appropriate table cloth on top, Lila prepared it for the next day of work, before checking the clock and seeing that it was now half past eight.
The new enough light fixtures that she and Kai had both worked on were doing extremely well for the café, and lookin
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