Genny's Ballad: The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series, Book 5 by Becki Willis

Author:Becki Willis [Willis, Becki]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Clear Creek Publishers
Published: 2017-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

Genny managed to get through the rest of the tea party. No one, not even Pembrook, guessed that her nerves were on edge and that her stomach was a knot of dread. She moved about the tables, smiling and visiting with her guests, until the party was finally over and the last of them left.

She locked the door behind them. She took no chances that Pembrook might linger outside and slip back inside. The café would reopen in thirty minutes, but she hoped that by that time, he would have given up and gone back to his hotel or whatever rock he crawled beneath.

She did not tell Cutter about the unwanted guest speaker. In fact, she had stopped answering his calls before the tea party even started. Every hour, it seemed, he called or texted, reassuring himself that she was all right. He was working out of town for the day, and tonight he had the dreaded birthday party at Montelongo’s. Shortly after noon, she grew weary of his over-protective worry and his repeated apologies about the party. If she were going to get any work done, she had to turn her phone off.

Genny concentrated now on decorating cakes for the double parties they had booked that evening. If not for the special events, she might have had the evening off. But with a retirement party for twelve and a birthday party for nine, she not only had to work tonight, she had to make the cakes. Both wanted an elaborate, one-of-a-kind cake.

“Mmm, those look delicious,” Thelma informed her boss, taking a whiff of the sweetly scented air. “What kind are they?”

“This one is the retirement cake. Triple chocolate, with raspberry ganache filling.” Genny twirled the cake around, adding a perfect swipe of frosting as she did so. “All it needs is a few chocolate shavings sprinkled on top, and it’s done. The birthday cake is already in the refrigerator. It’s a white layer cake, filled with strawberries and fresh cream frosting. Once it sets up, I’ll add strawberry roses for garnishing.”

“No writing on either one?”

“Nope. Both nice and easy.”

Thelma eyed the extravagant three-layer chocolate cake. She knew the other one had at least five layers. “Easy?” the woman laughed. “I would have trouble with two layers and canned frosting, much less all this!” She waved at ‘this’, an assortment of ingredients and cooking accessories Genny had scattered across the stainless steel prep area.

“Ah, this is easy stuff,” the chef replied. “You should see some of the cakes I had to make back in Paris and Boston.”

“This is clearly your calling. I’m sorry you have to work tables tonight, Miss Genny. It’s too lowly for talent like yours.”

“There is nothing lowly about working tables, Thelma. It’s a good, honest job. And I’ve waited my share of them, long before I owned them. It doesn’t hurt me to get out there and do the same work as the rest of you, especially until I hire a replacement for Shilo Dawne.”

“Maybe that new girl you interviewed today will work out.

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