Christmas in Angel Valley by Lisbon Press

Author:Lisbon Press [Malone, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lisbon Press

They arrived at the gala about two hours later. The whole town was there and Serenity and Liv had both gone home to change before meeting back at the bakery. Now in their formalwear – Serenity in a lace-trimmed dress and Liv in another crisp pair of slacks and a button-down blouse – they carried their bakery boxes up the concrete steps of the town hall.

Liv had gotten the whole catering thing down by now and Serenity hardly had to coach her through the process of plating the brownies and blondies and then bringing them into the ballroom where the gala would be held. The room was already busy with people at tables decorated with holly, and there was a large Christmas tree near the entrance. A string quartet played at one end of the room while Serenity and Liv worked seamlessly together to arrange the trays on the dessert table next to a massive display of Abbott’s cupcakes.

When Liv caught Serenity staring at them, she whispered, “No way they’re as tasty as your brownies. You’ve got this.”

“Thanks,” Serenity said, putting on a smile with some effort. “Well, there’s nothing more we can do now. Shall we mingle?”

“Yeah,” Liv said. She didn’t even ask as she slid her arm around Serenity’s, and that surprising show of ownership made Serenity shiver with desire. Her heart had belonged to Liv since high school so it felt perfectly right to be at the gala with her now.

“My parents and sister will be here,” Serenity said. “Is your family coming?”

“My parents never miss it,” Liv said, looking around the room as their fellow Angel Valley residents moved about the room. “Oh, I see them over by the drink station. Do you want to say hi?”

“Sure,” Serenity said. She’d met Liv’s parents dozens of times when they were in school, and Liv’s mother came by the bakery often, but the idea of walking over to them with her arm linked in their daughter’s was enough to make Serenity’s stomach erupt in a flurry of butterflies.

She didn’t quite make it to the drink station, though. On the way there, a man in a neatly pressed suit caught sight of Serenity and started marching toward her. He looked at her with such intensity that she worried for a second that he might be planning to hit her, but when he stopped in front of her and Olivia, he simply extended his hand with a smarmy grin.

“Serenity Ryan, at last we meet,” he said. She took his hand, glancing nervously at Liv. “I’m Joseph Abbott.”

“Oh,” Serenity said. Ordinarily she wouldn’t have dreamed of being so rude – she would have at least put on a fake smile and tried to be approachable – but he caught her off-guard and she was already feeling so many things, there was no room for friendly competition.

“Look, I hope there’s no bad blood between us,” Joseph said, his grin never faltering as he continued to shake her hand. “It’s just business, right?”

“You

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