Quiet and slow days felt kind of ominous for her. Like something was going to happen. After making sure that her backup would be ready to get in, if anything happened, she strolled behind her counter and let her day begin, as a couple of customers got in. Most of them knowing what they wanted;fortunately. Checking on her suspect album, as she usually did every day, she wondered why they never got in; even if her eyes caught a couple of familiar faces passing outside the store and supposedly window shopping. On the other hand, if anything happened, she’d miss wearing that bulletproof vest under her shirt. She’d also miss brainstorming information about who can like this book or that book. Or which genre might match a teacher that wants to learn a foreign language. It wasn’t her first rodeo-this mission. But, she was sure that she was going to miss it. More than she usually misses the adrenaline.
There were also a couple of other things she was going to miss. A certain someone; as a matter of fact. Of all the places, Louisa had to be interested in someone during a mission and under a secret identity: well, the first name was different and the bookworm persona that she was totally winging it. She had a certain low self-esteem there: she could never be the right kind of bookworm when she didn’t have time to read as many books as other people did. But, then again, people seemed to like how genuine it seemed to her. Taking a deep breath and letting Lou leave for a while so that “Kate” would appear, she looked through online catalogues of books, wondering how long and hoping it would take its time for this mission to complete. Her head was raised instantly as the bell over the door rang and this certain someone walked in the store.
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