Text for You by Sofie Cramer

Author:Sofie Cramer [Cramer, Sofie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2022-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

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All right, listen, I need your help.”

“Good morning to you, too. Why yes, thank you, I did have a nice weekend. How sweet of you to ask,” Hilke teases her colleague, shaking her head sarcastically as she walks into the office in a rush. “What’s up? Trouble with Breiding?”

“No, new info from Lilime.” Sven doesn’t know whether to look forward to Hilke’s reaction or dread it.

“What? Really?” Hilke cries. She suddenly looks wide awake. “Well, come on, out with it. What happened?”

“Nothing.”

“Oooooh, you’re driving me nuts. Why is it always like pulling teeth trying to get you to tell me something?”

“I just did a little research because I was bored.”

“And?”

“That’s it. There wasn’t a whole lot I could turn up. I only know that she apparently lives in a city with an Italian restaurant that’s owned by someone named Beppo and has a type of pizza on its menu called Diavola.”

“Oh, yum.”

“You’ve heard of it?”

“Yeah, super-delicious, really spicy, and flavorful. It’s Martin’s favorite kind of pizza.”

“It’s Lilime’s lost love’s favorite, too.”

“Okay, and what else?” asks Hilke, who is still staring at him eagerly across the desk.

“That’s it—nothing else. According to the internet there are forty-five restaurants in forty different cities in Germany owned by someone named Giuseppe. And I know that at least three of these have a Pizza Diavola on the menu.”

“Why Giuseppe? Oh right, from Beppo, got it. And what else besides that?”

“Nothing!”

“Well, what about Hamburg? Is Hamburg one of the cities? I think there’s a Giuseppe who works at the pizzeria around the corner from us.”

“You see? That just proves how low the chances are of tracking down this one Italian guy out of the hundreds of Giuseppes out there, not to mention how hard it would be to identify Lilime even if I did.”

Hilke drops onto her chair. She’s silent for a moment. “Okay, Sven, be honest now. Why don’t you just call her?” she asks, wearing that typical smug grin of hers.

Sven grimaces and rolls his eyes.

“Fine, not a good idea. But what if I call her again? Under a different pretext?” Hilke has an innocent look on her face, like a child who’s hatching some scheme.

“No. That’s dumb. What are you going to say to her? That you’ve dialed the wrong number again, but you would still like to know her name?”

“I could also call and just hang up as soon as she answers. She might say her name right when she picks up.”

“All she says when she picks up is ‘Hello.’ It—”

“Oh, no way!!! So now you finally admit it. You’ve totally spoken to her! And you want me to think you’re not one bit interested in her . . . the nerve!”

“I have not spoken to her!” Sven has to think fast—how is he going to get himself out of this one? “But this is definitely the kind of person who only ever answers with ‘Hello’ or ‘Yes?’ ”

“Well, I’d say it is worth a try. What’s the number again?”

Sven reads off Lilime’s

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