The-Sinful-King-By-Claire-Contreras-PDF

C H A P T E R 3
I
’d spent my morning on the phone with a book
distributor, making sure they got the boxes I sent
back to them. My uncle had entirely too many boring books
in the store. Books that had been here for over ten years and
not sold, but he’d been hesitant to send back. He said it was
because he didn’t want them to destroy them. I told him he
was destroying himself by keeping them here. It was no
wonder in the week I’d been here only two people had
walked in. I glanced over to the front door. I needed to do
something about the storefront as well. I’d called a couple
that flipped houses here to see if they could help me with
this and they were due here any minute. I didn’t have a ton
of money to spend on my uncle’s behalf, but I had enough
saved up to hopefully make a di erence around here. When
the door opened, I stood and set the books in my hand down,
passing my hands over my sundress to make sure it fell into
place. The house-flipping couple came into view and I
moved forward to greet them.
“Hi. I’m Adeline. Thank you so much for coming.” I
smiled, shaking each of their hands.
“I’m Lenora, this is Pedro.”
“So nice to meet you both.” I took my hand back and
waved it around the store. “Well, this is the place. As you can