A Gingerbread Romance by Lacey Baker

Author:Lacey Baker [Baker, Lacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947892439
Publisher: Hallmark Publishing
Published: 2019-09-16T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The next day, it was back to work on the gingerbread house. Everything was going according to the plan Taylor had mapped out. As she looked at how far they’d come with the frame matching her plans and all the gingerbread baked and cut into the precise size sheets they needed, she felt like happy-dancing around the exhibit stage. Of course she didn’t do that. It would not be appropriate for her team to see their manager goofing off in that way. But she was humming Christmas carols as she moved around checking all their supplies for today’s work.

A loud thump caught her attention and she looked around to see if someone on her team had fallen or broken something. Thankfully it wasn’t their team, but someone on the teachers’ team. The frame they’d cut and nailed together for their chimney had fallen to the floor. One of the teachers—the one with the long braids and great boots who usually came early in the morning and in the evenings to work—stomped her foot and groaned as she looked down at the mess.

Even though they were the competition, Taylor felt a tinge of sadness, because she would be livid if something like that happened to them. Ready to resume her work, she glanced over to the other side of the stage and saw that Bradford and Annabelle had watched what happened as well. The look on their faces wasn’t nearly as sympathetic as Taylor felt and she immediately frowned.

She had no idea when Bradford had changed, but since going over to Crestford, he hadn’t been the same cheerful and helpful guy she’d gone to school with. Truth be told, there’d always been a spark of friendly competition between the two of them. That spark just ignited into a full-blown flame once he switched companies. But this was a competition and everyone entered was here to win.

“Careful,” she said to Adam while holding sketches of what the final house would look like in her hand. “A sugar plum dropped from that height could put someone in a sugar coma.”

She was keeping things light with him now. After last night when they’d been standing by the tree he and Brooke had bought for her and she’d sworn he wanted to kiss her—a kiss she would’ve definitely welcomed—Taylor knew she had to take a step back. Not only were they working together, which could cause all kinds of problems if they were to become romantically involved, but she’d given up on long-term relationships.

She’d told him that over sandwiches in his dining room a few days ago. And she’d reminded herself more than once a day since then.

“Good point,” Adam replied. “I’ll be careful. Royal icing works like glue.”

Josephine and David were watching and doing the same thing as Adam—painting the royal icing onto the beams where they would be hanging the gingerbread.

“How come they call it royal icing? Did a king invent it?” Josephine asked.

“Not exactly, but when the bakers were making Queen Victoria’s wedding cake they used icing and confection sugar.

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