A Cheesecake Christmas: A Sweet RomCom by Deb Goodman
Author:Deb Goodman [Goodman, Deb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-12-18T00:00:00+00:00
âYou still tasting the cheesecake bath?â Aria asks me as we head out to our cars. Itâs nine oâclock and the meeting has ended. Weâre puffing out condensation with every breath.
âI had to spritz cologne all over me, even with the new shirt Jesse brought me. And then I took a shower when I got home from work.â
She shakes her head and laughs. âI still canât believe you got plastered with cheesecake.â
âSpeaking of the bakeshop, I have to go over to my office and get some things. The big pro bono case is coming up.â
âOkay, well, I might see you over there,â she says, before hurrying into her car.
Just because my office is right next to her bedroom doesnât mean I have to see her. I shouldnât. I have work to do and not much time to do it.
But when I reach my office and grab my files, Iâm not sure where my headâs at. I could check to make sure sheâs okay. She wasnât okay last night, and Iâm glad I was able to help her not be so alone.
I should probably check on her real fast.
I can hear her move around in her bedroom. I screw up my face in apprehension before deciding to go for it.
âKnock, knock,â I shout through the wall.
âHey Theo,â she shouts back.
âI wanted to check on how youâre doing.â
Thereâs a long pause and Iâm about to repeat myself when I hear her say. âCan I come over to your office? For just a minute?â
Every emotion under the sun shifts through me. âUh. Sure.â I start throwing papers and files around to tidy up. âIâll let you in in like, one minute?â
âMake it two,â she says, and I hear her footsteps leaving her bedroom.
Sheâs still in her dress when I open the officeâs main doors downstairs.
âCome on in,â I say, nervous that Iâve got a single Aria in my midst and weâre alone in the office.
Iâm pretty sure Weatherby has security cameras set up in here. I know he did in the old place.
There. That thought alone will keep me from making choices with Aria that I should not make.
Charlotte, the receptionist, has decorated for Christmas with pre-lit birch trees, pinecone garlands, and starry curtain lights. The ambiance is kind of niceâwhich is hard for a Christmas-hater like myself to say.
But maybe I hate Christmas a little bit less this year with so much of Aria in it.
âCan we sit here?â She motions to the seating area.
Iâm relieved weâre not going up to my office. Thereâs a tension in the air, and I canât figure out what it is.
âSure,â I motion to the sofas. âHave a seat.â I rush over to the drink refrigerator behind the reception desk and grab us some water bottles. âAnd we have playing cards in the side table. Jay sometimes plays solitaire out here when he needs to think.â
She settles onto the sofa and thanks me as she takes the bottle. âIâm so glad thereâs been a good response to the advertising for the festival.
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