The Cupcake Diaries by Darlene Panzera

Author:Darlene Panzera [PANZERA, DARLENE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

AFTER ANOTHER FANTASTIC day of sales, Dave grinned. “I was hoping I could repay you for fixing the refrigeration on my truck.”

“Just as long as it isn’t with sea glass,” she joked.

“How about I buy you dinner?”

She tensed. Don’t get misled, she told herself. He probably meant he’d send her home with a pizza. Alone. “You don’t need to repay me. My life has been cursed with trouble, and your truck probably broke because I was too close to you to begin with.”

“I like having you close,” he said, giving her a little sideways bump. “That’s why I want to ask you out on a date.”

“A date?” She swallowed hard, wondering if she’d heard him right. “W-with you?”

A worried expression crossed his face. “You make it sound like I’m the one who’s cursed.”

“What about your girlfriend?”

“Girlfriend?” He looked at her as if he had no idea what she was talking about.

“Black bikini and diamond stud sunglasses stuck onto a tanned, commercial-thin body?”

Dave grimaced. “Not a girlfriend. She’s the ex-wife. Her name’s Carla, and she came by to rub in the fact that Dave’s Ice Cream Palace has been reduced to a cheap pile of rubble on the beach.”

“You—you’re that Dave, owner of Dave’s Ice Cream Palace?”

He nodded. “Was. Past tense.”

“My cousin, Rachel, used to rave about your ice cream all the time when I lived in Nebraska. She said I’d have to come out to Oregon for a taste to believe how good it was.”

“Well, the Palace is gone. My ex took as much as she could in the divorce, and I had to sell everything and start over from scratch.”

“That’s when you got the tattoo?” Stacey asked. “To remind you not to take life for granted?”

“I wasn’t thinking too straight at the time.” Dave took her hand in his. “But I assure you, I am now. So . . . how about that date?”

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