Icing On The Date (The Bannister Brothers #1) by Jennie Marts

Author:Jennie Marts [Marts, Jennie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B016GBIG2U
Goodreads: 27576208
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2016-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The ringing of her cell phone woke Gabby from a deep sleep. She’d been dreaming about Owen and what could have happened if her stupid little brother hadn’t shown up last night and interrupted them.

Although it was probably a blessing that he did. Things had been happening really fast on that sofa. Amazingly fast. Amazing, period.

Holy frosted cupcakes, that guy was ridiculously hot.

The winter sun shined through her bedroom window, and she noted the time read a little after seven as she tapped for the phone and brought it to her ear. “Hello.”

“Hello, Miss Gabby?”

“Estelle? What’s wrong?” She recognized the voice of the woman who’d helped raise her and now baked for her in the morning.

“You need to get down here. This place is going crazy.”

“Crazy how?” She was already climbing out of bed and throwing on a pair of yoga pants. Thor stretched and yawned but stayed in his place curled in the folds of her comforter. It took more than a phone call to panic Thor.

Estelle was in her late fifties and had been baking for Gabby for several years. She could be counted on to show up every day, do her work quickly and efficiently, and with a great attitude. The note of panic in her normally calm voice told Gabby that something was very wrong, and she could only imagine the cause. A frozen pipe gushing water into the kitchen? The stove exploding? The mixer falling apart?

“Crazy like there’s a mob of people here. There’s been a line out the door since we opened the doors, and we can’t keep up. We need your help.”

A line out the door? Really? Estelle had to be exaggerating.

Although, unlike Gabby’s mother, the woman was not known for her exaggeration.

But there was definitely panic in her voice.

“I’ll be right down.” Gabby hung up the phone and skipped to her dresser, her heart light, and a smile cracking her face as she pulled open the drawer. The panic was actually over a good thing. Something positive. She could handle a little panic over extra business.

Gabby threw on the rest of her clothes and pulled her hair into a high pony tail. She quickly brushed her teeth and yelled for her brother. “Justin, get up. I need your help.”

She heard a groggy mumbled response and pushed the door to the spare room open. “Get up. I need you. Estelle just called and said there’s a line out the door downstairs in the bakery.”

He rolled out of bed, blinking and rubbing a hand over his head. “I’m up.”

“Good. I’m heading down. Brush your teeth and come down as quickly as you can. Estelle is in a panic.”

Justin was at her apartment often enough that he had his own toiletries and some extra clothes in the spare room. Went to show the state of her love life that the only extra toothbrush in her bathroom belonged to her brother.

“Yes, mom.” He offered her a wry grin, reminding her of how he looked as a ten year old kid, and her heart swelled with love for him.

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