Taking the Cake by Natalia Williams

Author:Natalia Williams [Williams, Natalia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

SABRINA

I stumble into work the next morning, getting in early for another busy day filled with deliveries and finishing orders.

Liz follows behind an hour later, a mound of messy green bun on her head.

“Morning. Oh no, did the blue turn green?”

“Does it look like pond scum or can I pull it off?” she asks, running a hand through her hair.

I tilt my head to look at her, considering. “You can pull it off. How’s Jeff doing?”

After the delivery last night, Gray and I came back to the bakeshop and he quickly drove home, wanting to get back to his grandfather. I felt bad for keeping him out, assuming he had all the time in the world, running after my own fun. But the wedding crashing was his idea, I tell myself.

I was tired, both physically and mentally, drained from trying to work out what had happened between us, so once I headed home, I went straight to bed, only managing to reply briefly to the group chat: Liz and her updates about Jeff - he’s okay. A couple of bruised ribs, a fracture on his leg. And James’s pictures of his beautiful baby nephew.

“Jeff is fine! Who cares? Tell me about the delivery!”

I snort at that. “And did you hear? James’s sister had a beautiful baby boy!”

She huffs out a breath. “Yes, yes. It’s wonderful. Now stop holding out on me!”

“It was fine,” I tell her, trying to hold in my smile. “We delivered the cake, everything got there in one piece, Nina eyeballed him like a piece of meat, and then we were done.”

“Ugh. Dammit, Nina.”

“He’s a good listener,” I say, going through notes on my clipboard.

“Is he now? Hm.” Her eyes are boring into my head. “And so, you set up the cake and just left?”

I look down at my clipboard, staring at one word so hard in the hopes that she’ll believe I’m actually looking through these notes.

“Spill it, Bri.” She’s onto me.

I look up at her and take a deep breath. “I just – I took him up on the roof,” I rush out in an exhale.

Her eyes widen comically. “The roof?”

“Aaaand then we crashed the Veracruz wedding.”

“You…you crashed the wedding that you delivered the cake to?”

“To be fair that one was his idea.”

“Oh my God, this guy is a goner.”

“What?”

“I mean, you are, too, honestly. The roof? You took him on the roof!” She swats my arm.

“Ow!”

“Please tell me you took him home, too.”

“No, his grandfather’s neighbor called and he had to go back home.”

Her eyes widen again. “But you wanted to!”

“Of course, I wanted to! Are you kidding?” I exhale, exasperated. “But…” I trail off, shaking my head.

“But what?” she presses.

“I don’t know if this is the smart thing to be doing Liz.”

“Why the hell not? If your home is a concern, you could have just gotten some on the roof,” she supplies.

“Marv caught us.”

She laughs at this, that loud cackle that erupts from her whenever she finds something particularly amusing. “Caught you doing what?!”

“Nothing!” I laugh with her.

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