The Waffle House on the Pier - Tilly Tennant Page 0,111
what they had to say ought to be said in front of him.
‘I can… I’ll go and get a burger,’ he said.
Sadie was about to tell him to stay where he was, that anything they wanted to talk about could be discussed with him there, but he was gone so fast, striding across the beach, that she never got the chance. She turned back to her sister. ‘Sounds serious.’
‘Not really. Well, a little, but I hope good as well.’
‘There’s a reason we asked Lucy to come over,’ Henny said. ‘It’s wonderful to have her visit, of course, but we need her to come and sign something.’
‘Actually, she volunteered to come and sign it,’ Ewan said. ‘And I’m going to sign it too.’
Sadie frowned. ‘I don’t understand.’
‘We have a buyer for the waffle house,’ Henny said.
Sadie’s face fell. ‘Oh.’
Why would they tell her this now? What kind of time was this to give her such horrible, disappointing news when they could see how happy she’d been? And what did that have to do with Ewan and Lucy anyway? Surely the only person who mattered was Gammy?
‘I don’t like them one bit,’ April said. ‘Don’t care for their business plans at all.’
‘I suppose you could refuse to sell it and wait for another buyer,’ Sadie said. ‘One who has a business plan you’re keener on…’
‘I could,’ April said. ‘But I’m not going to.’
‘Aren’t you?’
‘No. I wronged you, darlin’. And I want to make amends. I was all set to cut you out of my will and then your brother… well, he told me what you did, and that you did it out of love for me… Well I’m an old lady now, and I guess I just couldn’t get that into my head, and I thought I could do all the things I used to be able to, but the last couple of weeks have shown me that I was fooling myself.’
‘Oh, Gammy, I—’
‘So I’m signing the waffle house over to you three kids.’
Sadie stared at her. And then she stared at Ewan and Lucy in turn. ‘We’re going to own the waffle house?’
‘You’re going to own it,’ Ewan said. ‘I told you I’d give you my share.’
‘And I’m going to sign over mine,’ Lucy said.
‘But…’ Sadie wondered if she ought to pinch herself. If this was a dream it was a lovely one, but it was going to be a very disappointing one to wake from. She looked back at Lucy. ‘Why would you do that?’
‘What you’ve got to ask yourself is what would I do with a third of a seaside waffle house?’
‘I don’t know… sell it.’
‘Who’s gonna buy a third of a waffle house?’ Lucy shook her head with a fond smile. ‘I have the career I want. Ewan has his but you… you were always the one who loved that old place more than anyone. Grandma wants it to stay in the family, and you’re the only one who ever shared that vision with her. It’s only right now that it comes to you and that you be the one to serve those legendary waffles to a whole new generation.’
‘I don’t have to buy anyone out?’
‘No.’
‘And I can run it however I like?’
‘You might want to take some advice from your grandma from time to time,’ Graham said.
‘But I can get staff… Oh my God, I’ll be able to afford staff now!’
‘You’ll have to get someone, I expect,’ Ewan said.
‘This is…’ Sadie was breathless, speechless. ‘This is…’
At that very moment, the rockets started to go off and everyone jumped. They lit the sky with showers of gold and crimson sparks that set off a round of applause from the crowds.
‘Blimey,’ Graham said, ‘that caught us all off guard!’
Everyone laughed, and then Sadie started to laugh, which soon turned into crying. But it was good crying, happy crying, the tears of someone who had just witnessed the clouds that had been obscuring the sky of her future moving away to reveal it. It was iris blue, bright and warm, full of promise. And it might just have been the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen.
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