Sweetly, Deeply, Absolutely (Sweet Love) by Kira Archer

Author:Kira Archer [Archer, Kira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Older Brother’s best friend, Sweet Love, Accidental Pregnancy, Entangled, category, Series, Romance, Lovestruck, contemporary romance, reformed playboy, Kira Archer
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-10-16T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Jared stood back from the counter, his arms crossed, as he stared at the infrastructure of their soon-to-be cake. Jenny stood on the opposite end of the kitchen doing the same thing. On the counter sat a long PVC pipe that supported four plates of graduating sizes. Theoretically, they’d stack the baklava on the plates creating tiers, like a real cake.

“You think it’ll be strong enough to hold the weight?” he asked.

Jenny nodded. “Oh yeah. I’ve used something similar to support cakes, and the baklava will be lighter than cake.”

“All right, then. When do we get started?”

“We,” she said, with a decidedly sarcastic tone of voice, “got started hours ago. Where were you?”

“I had a consultation for a job. I would have cut it short, if I’d known you needed me.”

“So, you’re at my beck and call now?”

Her flirtatious expression had him flashing back to their time tangled up in the sheets, and he had to do some serious mental calisthenics to keep from giving everyone an eyeful right there in the kitchen.

“Yes, ma’am. You need me, I’ll come running.”

She laughed, and even he was surprised to realize he was serious. Making her smile had become one of the highlights of his day, and there wasn’t much he wouldn’t do to keep it on her face.

She gave her head a little shake and then got back to business. “All right, let’s get this thing assembled, and then we need to get going on the baklava.”

She worked tirelessly, baking baklava, helping out front, and trying her hardest to keep Gina off her feet. Jared pretty much did what he was told. He was willing and ready to help, but Jenny was a major distraction. It was a good thing she was in charge, because he was too busy running what-if scenarios through his head to be much use except as a fetch-and-carry boy.

It had been long enough that if she was going to get pregnant, she probably already was. But that apparently didn’t mean she’d be far enough along that the test would be effective. Which he thought was a freaking crime. With all the technology available these days, there should be a test that could tell immediately if one of those little swimmers had made it the second it happened. Because the waiting was killing him.

Around six o’clock, there was a loud commotion in the front as a large crowd of people streamed through the doors. They closed at six, so he wasn’t sure why Gina smiled and pulled off her apron. Usually if people came in that close to closing, she wasn’t thrilled. Especially a group that large.

“The family’s here,” she said, making her way out to the front to greet her husband and in-laws.

Ahhh, okay. That made more sense. Jenny pulled her apron off as well. “Everyone is taking me out to dinner.” She smiled at the chaotic jumble of voices filtering in from the front.

Jared poked his head around the corner, his eyes widening. The small storefront was filled almost to capacity.

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