Forty Thousand Dollars and the Deed to Maple Avenue Bakery

personal savings,” I said. “That is your retirement.”

“It is not a gift, Evelyn,” Arthur said, his voice quiet but firm. “It is an investment. I am proposing a short-term partnership between the two of us.”

“A partnership?” I asked.

“A five percent share in the bakery, to be bought back by the business over the next three years,” he said, pushing a single continue reading …