Ch 40, Ana
She was standing looking at Maddie as she gave instructions to her employee, Dylan, about closing up the Café. She’d pulled a young man in for the evening shift that would cross the dinner rush to replace her, and he was like 16 or 17, Ana thought, a casual employee, one of the local teens.
She had made the decision to trust the woman. Ana had spent the afternoon watching her, the way she was with her employees and the customers, both the regulars that lived here as well as the holidaymakers, here for the summer.
Maddie had just gone about her regular day, talking to everyone that she served, and she did seem nice. The people that lived here in this town liked her, smiled, laughed and chatted with Maddie as if they’d known her for a long time. Ana could see she did need to hi
