Cupcake Boys by Melanie Thompson

Author:Melanie Thompson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“Take the SUV and go on home,” Leslie told Steven. “Marie still feels bad. I’m gonna send her home and close up.”

“How will you get home?”

“I’m not ready to go home yet. I might walk over to Tapas after I close and hang out.”

Steven snorted. “Mark?”

“He’s better than Duke. He never tore up Granny’s cookbook or tried to steal from me.”

“You’re judging Duke too harshly, Les. You’ll see.”

Leslie followed him to the back door. “No, you’ll see. And being right will only make me sad not happy, sad for you. You’re too trusting. You’ve always been like that.”

When Steven was gone, Leslie sent Marie home and began washing cupcake pans and trays. They stacked up and nobody wanted to wash them so they were an end-of-the day chore. She was elbow-deep in suds when she heard the front-door bell. Wiping soap off as she went, she headed through the kitchen door. When she saw who was there, she froze.

Jeff Carlyle stood in front of the display case looking as good as ever. He was a tall, broad-shouldered personal trainer with thick black hair, blue eyes and a square jaw. He exercised and forced fat, out-of-shape people to work out for a living. It suited him perfectly. He was an overbearing ass.

“Les, you look terrific.”

Leslie knew this was a crock. Her hair was pulled into a ponytail, she’d been through every emotion possible throughout the day and was covered with chocolate batter, buttercream and soap suds. She ripped her filthy apron off and threw it at him. “Why are you here, Jeff?”

He caught the apron with one hand. The other one was held behind him. Leslie didn’t know what he was up to but he had to have some kind of ulterior motive. Just seeing him made her hurt. She still carried love for him in her heart even though he’d cheated on her with one of his clients and then dumped her. A client with a huge butt; he liked asses.

“Couldn’t stay away, Les. You know I love you.”

“You only love yourself.” She steeled her heart and felt her backbone stiffen. It had been eight busy months working on the store and building it as a business. The pain had lessened. It was bearable. She could handle this.

“You’ve done good things here. You always could bake.” He started around the case toward her. “Aren’t you supposed to be closed? It’s after nine.” He pointed to the sign on the door. “Says you close at nine.”

She back-pedaled. “Stay on the other side of the case, Jeff. You are not coming into this kitchen.”

He kept moving toward her. His eyes narrowed and she saw desire spring into them. “Come on, Les, I know what you like.”

He pulled his hidden hand out and showed her he held a paddle, a familiar paddle. She grabbed both cheeks as heat filled her entire body. “No.” But she really meant yes and he knew it.

He pulled her close and she let him. When he kissed her he grabbed her ass in his free hand and squeezed it hard.

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