Sweet as Pie by Alicia Hunter Pace

Author:Alicia Hunter Pace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2021-06-18T15:00:38+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The dining room of the historic Laurel Springs Inn had an old-fashioned, elegant, country-club feel to it, though the food was better than any country club Evans knew. Those places always worried too much about golf and liquor and not enough about food. She’d dropped her parents off here earlier, gone home to change, and was now back to meet them for dinner.

It was filled to the brim with hockey players eating with their families. At least she didn’t have to worry about seeing Jake here. By now, Christine was probably spoon-feeding him chicken pot pie.

Her gut tightened at the thought of that pie. She hadn’t intended to decorate it, hadn’t intended to go one extra inch, let alone an extra mile, for the man she was so mad at. But then it had looked plain compared to the other pies. It was professional integrity that made her add the crossed hockey sticks. Then, it needed a little something more, so she’d tried her hand at cutting out the Yellowhammer logo freehand. That had taken three tries, and during the process, she’d begun to think about why she was angry at Jake. She’d already faced that he hadn’t done anything wrong or behaved any differently than he always had.

She sometimes forgot that he’d been a good friend to her in a thousand ways—like the time their cotillion class had gone to a fancy Chinese restaurant and he’d quietly moved to sit beside her and help her when she couldn’t get the hang of using chopsticks.

He had simply failed to meet her expectations—and she was the only one responsible for her expectations. And she only had herself to thank for letting him push her into going to his condo to cook instead of Crust. If it had been Ava Grace or Hyacinth who’d behaved as he had, she wouldn’t have given it a thought. They were her friends—and so was Jake. That was all he would ever be.

Usually, when she talked herself out of her anger, she felt relieved and happy, but this time she was left feeling flat, empty, and sad. So she had kept embellishing the pie with his name, number, and stars, until it was decorated up like a Victorian side table.

Needing some distance before she talked to him again, she’d let Jake’s calls go to voice mail yesterday and she had not called him back. Too bad she couldn’t lock herself in her house until the team left on Sunday.

Keith Pemberton stood when she approached. Her father had been to Miss Violet’s cotillion classes, too. Then he smiled at her, like he always did, and he hadn’t learned that from Miss Violet. It came straight from the heart. Though no one had ever admitted it, Evans knew that, after two girls, she was the child who was supposed to be a boy—the one more try. They never acted like they regretted her, but she wondered how much they would have celebrated a boy.

He held her chair. “You look nice, Evie.

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