Sweet Seduction by Daire St. Denis

Author:Daire St. Denis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

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WHERE HAD THE past twenty days gone? Daisy had thrown herself into working every shift at the bakery—giving her no time to think about money, her ex, or Jamie and how she hadn’t heard from him since the gym—and now, here it was, the night before the big fund-raiser. The bakery was closed, but that didn’t mean it was quiet. There was a horde of party planners streaming in and out, decorating the place with balloons and banners that read Save Nana Sin’s.

Daisy had tried to help but found she was just getting in the way, so now she sat in a corner of the kitchen, watching the mayhem like an outsider.

“There you are,” Gloria said, bustling in with bags under her arms. “Everything okay?”

“Fine.”

Gloria was followed by a man carrying a huge box. “That can go in the office at the back.” She pointed the way to the door and then sat down beside Daisy, plopping the bags on the butcher block. “God, this is fun, isn’t it?”

“Mmm...” Daisy tried to share in her friend’s enthusiasm but was unable to do it. The fear of failure was just too strong. Instead of answering, she asked, “So, what’s in the box?”

“T-shirts.” Gloria reached inside a bag, pulling one out. “They’re supercute.” She held it up. The shirt had a caricature of an angel holding a doughnut with a big bite taken out of it. The caption read Heavenly! At the bottom was the Nana Sin’s logo. Then Gloria showed her the back, where there was a caricature of a devil devouring a doughnut—crumbs flying—with the words, Sinfully Delicious. Don’t Even Try to Resist.

Daisy reached for the shirt. It was cute. “Are we wearing these?”

“Yep. I’ve got one for all of our celebrity guests and staff. But they’re also for donors.” From her bag she pulled out her tablet, tapped it and showed the screen to Daisy. “I set you up on GoFundMe. The way it works is that people who donate less than fifty dollars get an e-copy of your cinnamon bun recipe. Donate between fifty and one hundred and they get the recipe and a T-shirt.”

“Wait, are there enough T-shirts in that box?”

“No, silly. We don’t send them out.” She tapped the screen to show Daisy the website of a T-shirt company. “They’re sent direct from the distributor. Saves on shipping, and the more that end up being ordered, the lower the cost per shirt and the more we raise!”

Daisy shook her head. How on earth did her friend know all this stuff?

Flipping back to the GoFundMe page, Gloria said, “Anything over one hundred is the T-shirt, the recipe and something special.”

“What?”

Gloria craned her head in the direction of the door.

“What are you doing?”

“Where are they? They were right behind me.”

“Who?”

A moment later, Daisy’s mother and Alexander came in. Cynthia was looking like her normal self, completely put together in a way that appeared as if she hadn’t spent a second on her makeup when Daisy knew it was at least a forty-five-minute production to achieve that natural, flawless look.

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