Sweet Dreams (A Sugar Rush Novel) by Nina Lane

Author:Nina Lane [Lane, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sweet Dreams
Publisher: Snow Queen Publishing
Published: 2016-09-19T21:00:00+00:00

DESPITE THE FACT THAT POLLY hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before, she sailed right through her test on aerated confections and nougat, successfully completed a pectin jelly exercise in her Jellies and Gummies lab, and learned about two new tax exemptions she could claim in her tax preparation class.

By the time she arrived at Wild Child to take over the afternoon shift from Clementine, she was feeling both productive and still all loosely warm from her night with Luke. She was sore in an entirely pleasant way, and it seemed as if thick, rich honey had replaced the blood in her veins. Not to mention her mind kept drifting off to replay the taste of his hot cherry-vanilla kisses, the glide of his big hands over her skin—

“You could take him to the Renaissance Fair.” Mia held up her cell phone triumphantly, waving it at Polly from a table where she was sitting with Ramona and Tom. “Now that is a man I’d love to see decked out in velvet breeches and a waistcoat.”

Polly tried to picture it and failed. The images of Luke in her head were all about crisp, tailored suits or just his long, muscular body stretched out above her . . .

She shivered, pressing her legs together and trying to focus on filling éclair shells with chocolate cream. Though she would happily jump right back into bed with him for the rest of the weekend, she did want them to have some fun that wasn’t sex-related.

“There’s a UFO meet-up and watch in Davis next Monday,” Tom offered.

“Or you could bring him to my fortune-telling group on Friday.” Ramona flicked one of her dreadlocks over her shoulder.

“Maybe you could get his-and-her massages,” Mia suggested. “Or take him for a spa day. Soothe in Indigo Bay gives detoxification baths using mud from a volcano in Cartagena.”

“Luke could just fly to Cartagena and go skinny-dipping in the volcano, if he wanted to.” Polly spooned more cream into the pastry bag. “Besides, I have to do things that don’t cost too much since I don’t want him to both advise me about the bakery and pay for dates, especially since dating was my idea. I thought I’d take him to the Snowflake Club for the Riders concert on Saturday night.”

Mia looked doubtful. “Snowflake skews a little young for him, doesn’t it?”

“He’s thirty-three, not fifty-three,” Polly said, vaguely insulted on Luke’s behalf.

“I’m just saying you might want to consider something more sophisticated.” Mia rose and approached the display cases, peering at the rather sparse offerings.

“He’s the sophisticated one, remember? I’ll bet he hasn’t been to a club in ages.”

“Neither have you,” Mia reminded her.

True. But this whole thing with Luke had started as a way for her to get back out into the world, and she was doing exactly that. So good for her.

Her phone buzzed, and she took it out of her apron pocket. A text lit up the screen:

L. STONE: How did the CEO feel without his peach?

POLLY: Hungry?

L.

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