Wild Man by Kristen Ashley

Author:Kristen Ashley [ASHLEY, KRISTEN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781455599196
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2012-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Unexpected Company

One month later…

IT WAS SATURDAY and Brock had just gone out for a run, his weekend with his boys having been interrupted by them being invited to a party that they were at right this moment. He was set to return, shower then take off and get them and I wasn’t going to see him again until Sunday night as he intended to have “a talk” with them (in quotes because it was going to be heavy) about all that was going down.

While he was gone, I was putzing around in my kitchen.

It was my first full day off since two weeks before Christmas because Tessa’s Cakes had been a madhouse and it was all hands on deck.

The good news about this was, I could afford more nighties.

The other good news about this was, when I pulled myself out of bed every day and dragged my ass home every night arriving late, exhausted, only to face Christmas crap (cards, wrapping presents I ducked out from work to buy or ran around the malls to get on the way home—we’ll just say my Christmas spirit took a hit), Brock didn’t like it much and told his mother about it. So of course she told her daughters about it.

So I got a visit at the bakery from Jill with Kalie and Kellie in tow and both girls were looking for jobs (Kalie, to buy Christmas presents and also to aid her goals in helping to save the world as well as for college, Kellie to buy Christmas presents and then continue to work her way to top fashionista of the sophomore class) and they wanted to work at Tessa’s Cakes.

I hired them on the spot.

They were still on the payroll working some evenings and weekends, and although business had slowed, it was not by much. They were godsends, considering they were punctual, understood customer service, were hard workers, didn’t like to be bored, and were hilarious. Kellie was even learning how to decorate cakes.

In other words, they were two of the reasons I could finally have a day off.

The bad news about this was, I was overworked, exhausted, and my Christmas spirit had been drained out of me. Not to mention, I didn’t have it in me to stay on the ball with all that was happening around me.

Therefore, I pretty much didn’t know what was happening around me because Brock locked himself straight into protective mode and told me not to worry about that shit. Instead focus on the bakery and Christmas.

And I probably shouldn’t have taken him up on that but I did.

It wasn’t really true that I had no days off. I had Christmas and New Year’s off. But neither of these were days off, as such, considering the activity levels.

First, Mom was taking a long visit, enjoying an Australian summer with my sister, there Thanksgiving through the New Year, so I had to be up at an ungodly hour to get their Skype.

Then Brock only got

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