章 13: Chapter 13: Fight Me

When she wasn’t working at the bakery, she was struggling in a similar way with routine chores at her new home. The only difference was the size of and reason for the audience.

At the bakery she faced her inexperience with everyday tasks and any mistakes she made the customers just wrote it off because she was a new employee, probably still in training, and usually got the order or the change due right eventually. At home, she was subject to Arthur’s keen observance and sharp derision for sport.

He loved to argue and Rachel would not be immune from his cutting remarks. He considered it to be a personality flaw that happened to make him perfectly suited to his professional calling.

“Okay,” he said to her one day watching her trying to mop the kitchen floor. “When you are done with struggling, just let me know and I’ll take care of the task myself.”