A Voice to Love (Fallen Tuesday Book One) (A Brothers of Rock Novel) Read Online Free PDF

the broken window.
    Uncle Tom didn’t bring
the situation up again during normal business hours. The evening rush came and the
line to get into Tommy Two’s was out the door. Someone announced that there was
a ninety minute wait and only three people had walked out because of the wait.
People wanted to eat at the restaurant and were willing to wait to do so. It
meant that Amy had to make sure the kitchen was on its game and that she was
the same. She couldn’t think about Denny. She couldn't think about her car. She
couldn’t think about anything. She had to focus on the tickets pouring into the
kitchen, the kitchen staff around her, and the waitresses who were under
duress. These were the moments when the normal restaurant spats would break
out.
    Standing right where she
belonged, Amy managed the kitchen with her eyes intent on perfection. It was
the only thing that kept her worry and pain at bay. She felt as though she had
to prove to herself that she could live life on her own, without facing any old
demons that were waiting. She wished Denny would just disappear forever, but
Amy knew that wasn’t possible. Not with what was owed to him.
    An hour into the dinner
rush, Amy looked around the kitchen.
    “Steve, Craig, and
Madison,” she called out and pointing. “You three, outside, take a five minute
breather. Just five.”
    “Sure it’s not two?” Madison
asked and giggled.
    Amy smiled. Everyone
loved to pick on Uncle Tom but it was all out of love.
    Amy then began a cycle of
making sure everyone got a break in the kitchen. It was a trick that took a
long time to master. Any slip ups in the kitchen could easily multiply and shut
everything down. By sending everyone three by three for five minute breaks it
kept the kitchen moving along and it gave everyone a chance to step away. It
was easy to get annoyed and frustrated, it was a job after all, Amy knew that.
For her, this was her life. She wanted the restaurant to be hers… and in some
ways, she wanted the restaurant to be Uncle Tom’s too. He didn’t know that and
if he did, he wouldn’t understand what that meant.
    Everyone had their break
and then Jeff elbowed Amy.
    “What?”
    “Take your break,” he
said. “We’re slowing now.”
    “No, I’m good.”
    “You need a break,” Jeff
said. “You look like something’s wrong.”
    “My mind is thinking too
much at once,” Amy said.
    “Which a break could
help, right?”
    Amy looked at Jeff. The
tip of his tongue played with his lip ring as he smiled. He was a good looking
guy, but Amy wasn’t sure about Jeff. The last thing Amy needed was a
relationship, especially one with someone who had an implications of a bad boy.
Tattoos, piercings, the fact that he was her employee. That didn’t work out so
well the first time.
    It was no secret that
Jeff had eyes for Amy. Everyone teased Amy about it when Jeff wasn’t around,
but never in front of Uncle Tom. He wouldn’t approve.
    “I’ll step out then,” Amy
said.
    “I think everyone’s
seated now,” Jeff said. “It’s good. Take ten minutes.”
    “Are you trying to get
rid of me?”
    “No, I just don’t like
that look on your face.”
    Amy smiled and walked
away. She opened the back door and walked out into the cold darkness of the
night. She had a coat in the office but it seemed like too much trouble to go
back in and get it for a break. She didn’t smoke so she didn’t really plan on
being outside that long at all. She hugged herself and looked up to the stars.
She could see her breath as she breathed.
    Jeff’s words played in
her mind.
    I just don’t like that
look on your face…
    Amy closed her eyes.
    What look? The look of
worry and fear… the look of a secret debt coming to collect?
    “Shit,” Amy whispered.
    She would have to call
Denny. And maybe settle everything. Somehow.

(4)
     
    The limo pulled around to
the back of the hotel. It made it barely ten feet into the parking lot when a
crowd of people appeared, cheering and