Holly Jolly Cake Fight: A Spicy Holiday Baking Competition Romance by Alice C. B

Author:Alice, C. B.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Thanksgiving without family sucked.

This was the first Thanksgiving Laurin had spent away from home since his football years, when he’d been in Europe so Thanksgiving hadn’t been a thing at all. But he’d embraced the holiday, ignoring the dark history of it in favor of the spirit of it and the traditions behind it, namely the gigantic feast. Yeah, he spent every day in a bakery, but he still loved spending an entire day in the kitchen. He loved inviting over friends and neighbors who didn’t have elsewhere to go. He loved the feast.

He didn’t even know what his family was doing, and it sucked. He was up all night, getting more and more irritated, but he’d at least been able to channel that into challenge prep. Lots of coffee, lots of cooking, lots of crafting.

Candace had apparently slept well; she was bubbly all morning, even going as far as to pick the station on the TV and sing along with the music she knew.

“It’s kinda weird, don’t you think,” Laurin mused when he nearly snapped at her for putting away the spinach before he’d finished with it, “that you’re the one in such a good mood this morning?”

Her eyes sparkled like sapphires in the morning sun. “It’s crazy, but I’m excited for this afternoon. I haven’t done Thanksgiving in ages. I know everyone’s grumpy with me, but if I get to eat a whole bunch of good food, I’m not going to complain.”

“You hardly eat any food,” Laurin pointed out. His sister had gone through a phase after having Vivvy when she mostly pushed food around her plate to make it look like she had eaten something. Candace did the same thing with most of her meals.

Instead of arguing with him, she shot him a fantastic smile and a playful tilt of her profile. “Maybe I’ve been saving up for today. Aren’t you excited about dinner tonight?”

Laurin dumped the spinach out onto a cutting board and sifted through it, picking out the leaves that had gone squishy and snapping off the longer stems. His spinach artichoke dip might not have been the most original dish, but it was a crowd pleaser. Candace had already retrieved an exceptional baguette from the oven and was busy slicing it into thick discs to liven the dish up a bit. Sourdough bread bowl of spinach dip? Tired. A crostini topped with creme d’artichaut? Wow factor.

“Thanksgiving has never been about food for me. It’s about family, right? And being thankful for all you have, I guess.” He knew everything he said to her was a landmine, but he couldn’t hold it back.

Laurin held himself back from asking her how she was even supporting herself right now. He was already doing a bang-up enough of a job raining on her good mood.

She swished her basting brush across the ovals in beat to the peppy Beatles track playing and even swung her hips. “I don’t have much, but I’ll have dinner tonight. Oh, and now that we’re at the fourth round, we have eight thousand dollars we didn’t have when we started.

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