He Kept Explaining My Job Until His Phone Lit Up

humiliating Ethan would’ve been correcting him an hour earlier. I hadn’t done that. I sat in my chair and let him perform his little king act in the kingdom of under-seasoned green beans.

He did the rest himself.

The Call He Couldn’t Ignore

His phone buzzed against the table.

Nobody looked away from it.

Ethan didn’t move at first.

Then it buzzed again.

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