The Mistake by Lexi James

Author:Lexi James [James, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-10-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Vanessa

When Adam asked me if I wanted to go down and get coffee, my first reaction was to decline. Things have already been so tense between us this morning that I figured spending any more time just the two of us wouldn’t go well.

The only thing that stopped me from declining his invite was the look in his eyes. He genuinely looked like he wanted me to come with him and was worried I wouldn’t.

Although I shouldn’t care about what he’s feeling because putting distance between us is to protect him.

When we walk into the café, I immediately notice their huge pastry case and feel like I have died and gone to sugar heaven.

It’s a place, trust me.

I must be drooling over the pastries because I turn to see Adam laughing in my direction.

“Have you never been here before?” he asks me with a smile.

“Nope. The only time I’ve had anything from here was when Connor and Caleb brought us coffee and food that one night. Had I known they had all of this, I would have been here every day,” I tell him, never taking my eyes off the food.

“Well, get whatever you’d like,” he tells me nonchalantly.

We order our coffees, but I’m still being indecisive and haven’t figured out which pastries I want.

“I, um, I’ll get . . .” I start to say, finally forcing myself to make a decision, when Adam interrupts me and starts talking to the barista.

“Can we just box up one of every pastry?” he asks the barista.

“Adam, that’s like thirty different pastries. Don’t be ridiculous,” I tell him, shocked.

“Vanessa, it’s fine,” he tells me with a simple smile. Turning back to the barista, who looks just as surprised that he ordered that much.

“Are you sure?” she asks timidly.

“Yup,” he says, popping the P. “One of everything in a box. That way, she can try a little bit of everything,” he says with a smile. “The girl loves her sugar.”

She eyes him skeptically but begins to put one of everything inside a box.

There’s literally every kind of pastry here, including things I’ve never even heard of. There are croissants, chocolate croissants, Danishes, donuts, cannoli, macarons, eclairs, and then there are some that I’ve never tried, like baklava, panettone, and diples.

After he pays for the pastries, we decide to walk the block to the park and sit for a moment and eat.

We walk in silence to the bench, where he gives me the pastry box to dig into.

After my first bite, I think I’ve died and gone to heaven.

“Oh, fuck, these are good,” I say out loud, only to cause Adam to start laughing again. “Shut up, I love sugar and carbs. Really any sort of dessert or pastry.”

“Hey, I didn’t say anything,” Adam says, laughing. “But can I have one too?” he asks with a wink, which quickly disarms me.

Why can a simple smile and a wink from this man completely derail everything that I’ve been working on? Why are we so drawn

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