The Sweetest Thing (SWANK Book 2) by Maya Hughes

Author:Maya Hughes [Hughes, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-30T18:30:00+00:00

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Hunter

Every surface in the kitchen was covered with baking tools and supplies. Tools that looked like torture devices were coated in red fondant, which wasn’t helping with the crime-scene look Jameson had cultivated in the overly full kitchen.

Cake flour, powdered sugar, blocks of butter, regular sugar, brown sugar, and enough eggs to make Rocky proud covered the counter. Five guys crammed into a domestic kitchen with more machinery than a small restaurant had ratcheted up the heat in here. I might’ve gone the tiniest bit overboard with the favor I’d put in for with a local restaurant, Tavola, asking for some of their portable ovens and other supplies.

We each had a station. Leo was on vanilla cakes. Everest was on chocolate cakes, which were Teresa’s favorites. August and I were handling chocolate and vanilla icing. Jameson had been stuck with the fondant and modeling chocolate. It was only fair.

“So Sabrina, huh?” Leo grinned at me while he locked the metal bowl under the stand mixer.

I added milk to the powdered sugar and butter whirring around in the mixing bowl, pointedly ignoring him.

Watching her fly through the air and slam into the floor had sent my heart rocketing into my throat. When she’d tried to push me away and got woozy, it cemented my commitment not to leave her alone.

“It’s not a big deal that she’s here.” It was a huge deal. I’d never introduced a woman to the guys before.

She’d met them during a meeting we’d had in the apartment not long after she’d moved in, but even that made her the only woman I’d ever been attached to who’d met them. Everyone else had introduced someone they were dating for various reasons. Leo had brought Zara to Teresa’s the first year after she gotten the engagement ring that belonged to neither of them stuck on her finger. I’d helped them out of that mess.

We’d all known Maddy back in college. She’d been closer to one of the guys than a girlfriend, though.

August and Carrie had been high school sweethearts, so they were a package deal from the beginning, but she was never one of us.

Jameson never had issues with bringing whoever he was dating around us, but never to the house to meet Teresa or his mom.

I’d been the lone one who never crossed the streams of my friends with who I was sleeping with at the time. Not that Sabrina fit that mold, since we weren’t doing that anymore, no matter how much I wanted to.

My inner circle was complete. Adding another person, especially someone who was already living with me, would mean getting closer to her than I had in a long time, and I preferred the arm’s-length way of handling things. It was easier and led to cleaner breaks. Less involved, there wasn’t any confusion about what we were to each other.

With her lavender scent, big brown eyes, and ball busting, Sabrina had come closest to throwing off my equilibrium when dealing with the opposite sex. She left me unsteady and unsure, which unsettled me.

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