Married To The Mop. Barbara Colley

he abuses you. You don’t have to put up with that.”

      Emily stared at Charlotte with dead eyes. “Yes—yes, I do,” she whispered. Then louder she said, “You know who and what my husband is, and you’re a smart enough woman to know why I have to stay.”

      Charlotte had no response to give. She did know who and what Robert Rossi was, and from the little she’d seen already, she also knew what he was capable of.

      With a last knowing look at Charlotte and a sad little smile, Emily’s brow furrowed in concentration. “Maybe, just maybe I could get a couple of Robert’s men to help,” she whispered. After a moment she shook her head and fresh tears filled her eyes. “That won’t work,” she finally admitted. “None of them know the first thing about being a waiter.”

      Charlotte’s heart ached for the younger woman, and though she hated admitting it, she was afraid that Emily was right about there being no way out of her abusive situation, just as there was no solution for her dilemma about the servers. The whole thing was impossible. There was just simply no solution. Unless…