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← The Critic Next Door

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Chapter 3: Borrowed Sugar

4 min read · 839 words

It took eleven days for Wren to knock on his door, and she came bearing sugar, which felt, in retrospect, like an act of aggression she hadn't fully thought through. "I ran out," she said, when Theo opened the door in a t-shirt and reading glasses, looking nothing like the harried man she'd met wrestling a ficus. "I'm making a génoise for tomorrow's dessert menu and I am one cup short and every s...

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