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Seafood Feast, Dine and Weep
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I was in the middle of a shift when my coworker, Denise Sutton, popped up out of nowhere and slapped me on the shoulder. "Next week is Gerald's birthday, and your family happens to run a seafood restaurant. So here's the plan — I'll chip in ninety-nine dollars, and we'll all go over to your place for a feast to celebrate." Denise counted off the menu on her fingers. "We need lobster and king crab, the fish has to be live-caught grouper, don't skimp on the appetizers, and stock up on beer and soda. Gerald's got gout, so go easy on the shellfish for him. Make sure everything's perfect — don't embarrass our department." She gave me a playful nudge, waggling her eyebrows. "Once Gerald's happy, he'll cut you a bonus worth a few thousand. Won't that make you happy?" "You get paid, you get noticed, and the boss ends up in a good mood. Amy, you'd better be properly grateful to me." I just stared at her, baffled. My family ran a breakfast counter that sold meat pies. Where exactly was the seafood supposed to come from? I turned Denise down flat. Denise just rolled her eyes and walked off. That night, a sign-up thread went out in the work group chat. "Gerald's birthday party is Saturday. I'm treating everyone to a seafood feast, all you can eat, and you can bring family. Reply if you're coming!" The chat erupted in cheers. In under ten minutes, more than fifty people had signed up. [My dad's never even had lobster. Guess he's finally getting cultured, thanks to Denise!] [My kid's obsessed with tuna. Get extra servings for her.] Denise agreed to everything without hesitation, dropped a location pin in the chat, and sent me ninety-nine dollars. Denise: [Amy, hold onto the money. The ingredients better be fresh — don't you dare shortchange your own coworkers.] I looked at the pinned location and smiled. It was the upscale seafood restaurant next door to my family's shop — owned by a man who'd gone straight a few years back after a rougher life, with tattoos running all the way up to his chin. The last person who'd tried to dine and dash there still hadn't gotten out of bed.
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Seafood Feast, Dine and Weep Chapter 8
That night, Denise posted a sprawling, several-hundred-word rant on social media, dripping with crying emojis.[I was such a fool to treat Amy Hartwell like family. She set this whole trap from the very beginning, deliberately staying quiet, watching all of us walk right into it. Here's the address of her family's breakfast shop. Does someone with a heart this poisonous even deserve to run a business?]Underneath, she'd attached a photo of the shop's storefront, the address and unit number clearly visible.Once she'd posted it, she decided it wasn't enough and forwarded it to every group chat she could find.Within minutes, the comments under her post exploded. People who had no idea what was actually going on piled on with insults. Others took screenshots and shared them further, and some messaged her privately asking what had happened.Denise replied to comment after comment, getting more worked up with every message, sounding like she'd suffered some grave injustice.I looked
Seafood Feast, Dine and Weep Chapter 7
The mediation room at the police station had lights so white they hurt to look at.The mediator squared up the fifty-three identification forms and tapped them against the table. "Everything's on record. This is the arrangement you all agreed to yourselves — Denise covers forty percent of the total cost, Gerald covers twenty percent, and the remaining forty percent is split evenly among everyone else present. Sign here."Denise's hand shook so badly she could barely hold the pen.Gerald's face had gone the gray of a wrung-out dish rag, a vein pulsing hard at his temple.The rest lined up one by one to sign. With every signature, someone muttered a curse or slammed their pen down.The colleague with the family of six had to come up with nearly three thousand dollars. His eyes were rimmed red as he signed, and the look he gave Denise could have skinned her alive.Only a handful of people could actually pay on the spot. Everyone else signed IOUs, pressed their thumbprints onto them,
Seafood Feast, Dine and Weep Chapter 6
Kevin was the first to slam his hand on the table and stand up."Denise!" His face flushed red, veins bulging in his neck as he jabbed a finger straight at her."You're the one who kept insisting this was Amy's family's restaurant. You're the one who swore you'd treat us to this meal in the group chat and told everyone to come. Now that it's blown up, you'll have to answer for it!"Denise scrambled up off the floor, screaming back like she'd lost her mind."Didn't all of you eat too? Huh? Who ate the lobster? Who tore through the king crab? Twenty-four bottles of cognac — did all of that go down my throat alone?"She jabbed a finger at Kevin's face. "You alone put away three pounds of lobster meat, and now you're playing innocent?"Paula Franklin from HR slammed her gift bags down on the table and crossed her arms with a cold laugh."Denise, did you forget who started the sign-up thread in the first place? We're all victims of your scheme.""Victims?" Denise's laugh came out sh
Seafood Feast, Dine and Weep Chapter 5
Denise's lips trembled, then she screamed. "Nonsense! You must have set this up with Amy! This is her restaurant! She's the owner! The two of you are in on this together, trying to con me!"She jabbed a finger back and forth between Marcus and me, practically leaping out of her seat like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.Marcus slapped the business license down on the table, pointing impatiently at the registered owner's name."Read it carefully. My last name is Doyle. This restaurant has nothing to do with Amy. Her family's shop is next door. They sell meat pies."Dead silence fell over the room.Clear as day. No room for argument.An uproar broke out."So then, what we've been eating this whole time is—"Kevin shot to his feet, his chair clattering to the floor."This restaurant's owner was in the news before. Someone tried to dine and dash here, and then..."He didn't finish the sentence, but everyone understood exactly what he meant.The whole table went cold, like t
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