Baked With Love by Erin Wright

Author:Erin Wright [Wright, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 39754514
Publisher: Wright's Reads
Published: 2019-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Cady

June, 2019

This was it – their first official date since that awkward-as-hell discussion in the bakery kitchen. She wasn’t nervous at all. Other than the fact that her stomach had apparently decided that now was the time to tie itself into Gordian knots and her heart was beating so erratically that it was a damn good thing she wasn’t connected to a heart monitor, she was perfectly fine. And calm.

Skittles meowed loudly in protest, and Cady looked down in surprise, finding that she’d apparently squished the calico cat so hard against her chest, he was probably having a hard time breathing. He was scrabbling for purchase, trying to free himself from her embrace, and she quickly placed him down on the carpet.

“I’m sorry,” she told him as he stalked a few feet away and began giving himself a vigorous bath, apparently needing to set his fur to rights after her inadvertent mauling. “I…forgot I was holding you,” she said lamely. “I just…I mean…what if I screw this all up? Dr. Jane says Gage wants to date me because he likes me for me, and I just need to be myself around him, but that seems like a really, really bad idea. After all, ‘me’ means what, exactly? The ‘me’ that freaks out when a plane flies overhead? The ‘me’ that flinches every time I see a sudden movement out of the corner of my eye? I’m pretty sure no one wants to date that ‘me.’ Hell, I don’t even like that version of me, and it is me.”

She flopped down on the ugliest couch known to man and watched as Skittles changed legs, extending the other one up in the air like a cat version of a ballerina, washing and straightening every hair, nosing and licking them into place.

“I just wish I could figure out what in the blazin’ hell Gage sees in me,” she mused. “If it made sense to me, it wouldn’t freak me out so much.”

She looked around the apartment, seeing it for the first time through Gage’s eyes. The lack of personality or color had been just what she wanted when she’d moved to Sawyer two months earlier, but now, it was feeling a little…sterile. Empty. Devoid of personality.

She had that second bedroom that held not a stick of furniture. She could move her stuff out of her storage unit in Boise and into the spare room. Save herself the monthly charge for the unit and maybe even unpack a few of the boxes. Use the knick-knacks inside to decorate and liven things up. Hang up a few pictures of her parents, even.

“It’d be nice to have some pictures of Mom and Dad back up,” she told Skittles. “I think—”

There was a knock on her apartment door just then, and she shot to her feet, almost toppling over from the panicky excitement shooting through her. Skittles stopped for a fraction of a second, trying to figure out if her movement meant wet cat food or pettings and, deciding it did not, resumed his elaborate bathing.

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