chapter five
when they pull up at the restaurant Katya has chosen Trixie is glad she settled on a dress; it isn’t an overly high-class establishment but there are certainly businessmen in suits and middle-class women with fancy up-dos, so she would have felt out of place dressed any other way. They take a seat by the window at Katya’s insistence and in the sunlight, Trixie notices the shimmer dusted across her cheekbones and the silvery-white highlights in her blonde hair. She’s frustratingly attractive, Trixie thinks.
The waitress who comes to take their drink order says something that makes Katya emit a pretty laugh and Trixie is so distracted it takes the waitress tapping her shoulder for her to snap out of it and order a sweet tea.