Beauty and the Baker by Christine Sterling

Author:Christine Sterling [Sterling, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Georgina couldn’t believe it. What were the chances that she run into the handsome man from the day before?

Stop it, Georgina, she thought to herself. She was soon to be a married woman. She couldn’t be having thoughts about another man. She just wished she knew what Lawrence looked like so she could think of him, instead of using the image before him as a substitute.

“You should have looked where you were going.” She looked down at her skirt. It was covered in flour. “Oh, bother,” she said. “I’ve done more laundry recently than I’ve ever done before.” She looked at the man. “That was a nickel’s worth of flour. I needed it to make a cake.”

“I really do apologize. I didn’t see you come around the corner.”

Georgina huffed by him and put the pieces of paper on the counter. “Maybe you should look where you are walking next time.”

“Maybe you should look as well.”

“I had already paid for my purchases. I was heading back to my house. You clearly weren’t looking.”

“If you weren’t in such a rush you wouldn’t have dropped the flour.”

“Well now I don’t have any flour. I might as well throw pennies on the floor.”

“I’ll replace the bag.”

“I need to get home immediately so I can make this cake.”

“Then let’s get you out of here.”

“Fine,” she said crossing her arms over her chest. She knew it was childish, but she had spent most of last night wondering about the strange man who invaded the garden. Now he was standing in front of her, all she could do was protect herself from any other feelings she may have. “Did your cat come back?”

The man placed a box tied with string and a few apples on the counter next to her bits of paper. “I told you it isn’t my cat.”

“If it isn’t your cat, I don’t know why you were chasing it.”

She watched the man drag his hand down his face. “Listen, lady. The cat got out the window and I went to find it. It jumped the fence into your yard. That was it.”

“So, it is your cat.”

“No, it is not. It belongs to my brother-in-law.” She recalled her aunt saying something about the cat belonging to a neighbor. Maybe this man was telling the truth.

The shopkeep cleared his throat. Georgina glared at him. “If you lovers are done arguing, perhaps we can tidy this mess up.”

“We aren’t,” Georgina said.

“Aren’t what?”

“Lovers.” She looked at the man. “Or arguing. It was simply a discussion.”

A wide grin broke out on the man’s face. Dimples. Oh goodness, he had dimples. He turned to the shopkeep. “I need a dime’s worth of flour. The four apples. And…” he looked around the store. Georgina watched him pick up a stuffed bear and add it to the pile. “Add this bear. What do I owe you?”

Georgina tried not to think about the child that would be getting that bear. Maybe once she moved to San Francisco she’d talk to Lawrence about having children right away.

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