Love Connection by Crimson Romance

Author:Crimson Romance
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crimson Romance

Chapter Twelve

Carly swirled icing onto the last of three-dozen perfect but boring pink princess-themed cupcakes for a little girl’s birthday party and boxed them neatly into Caketopia’s signature lavender boxes. Once they were stacked neatly on her worktable, she threw away the plastic piping bag and washed the decorating tip, trying to tell herself that she found just as much joy in providing beautiful cupcakes for a kid’s birthday party as she did creating the Grainger-Rivers wedding cake. As the warm water sluiced over her hands and into the stainless steel sink, she reasoned that even if Sequoia Rivers was a kook, she might be onto something. Carly couldn’t think of anything lately except losing Michael and how stupidly sad she was over the whole thing. But in her heart of hearts, she knew she’d done the right thing. He was meant for more than working at a bakery, and no matter how much she wanted him for herself, she had to let him go.

She dried off the metal decorating tip and returned it to her case. Everything in its place. Layla came in, knocking on the doorframe as she walked, and seated herself at Carly’s worktable.

“These for the Sophie Chambers party?” She indicated the stack of bakery boxes.

“Yep, just finished up with those and ready for the next order.” Carly busied herself drying her hands and avoided eye contact with her employee.

“Great, because we’re backed up. I’ll take these to the refrigerated case for you, and then we have something like a dozen new orders to talk about.” Layla looked at Carly over the tops of her red-framed glasses. “What really happened with Michael Welch in Los Angeles?”

Carly’s shoulders slumped. “Nothing happened. You know as much as I do, really.”

“I doubt that. You look too depressed for a woman who just got the job of a lifetime and doesn’t have to share the spotlight.” Layla’s gaze was pointed, unflinching. “You want to tell me what’s going on? I thought it was really strange when you told me that you were together, and even more strange when you came back without him, but things are clearly much more serious than I thought. We can talk about it, if you want.”

Carly blew out a breath and shot a glance to the door. Seeing that it was closed, she pulled her second barstool out and sat by Layla at her worktable. “You can’t tell anyone, okay?” When her employee nodded, she continued. “When we pitched the wedding, Sequoia wanted to hire us because she thought we were a couple. Before I could correct her, Michael jumped in and told her that we were, and after that, I just went with it.”

Layla paused, obviously formulating a response, and tapped the worktable. “Okay, as absurd as that is, I can understand why you went along with it, and it makes much more sense than you falling for a guy you used to hate. I’m sure it seemed harmless enough at the time. Nobody could’ve

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