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It’s rinse and repeat. Make dough, chill dough, roll dough, portion cookies, bake cookies, flood cookies, decorate cookies.
It’s one of those mindless tasks I can do on autopilot, which is perfect since my head is stuck in the clouds.
How do I regain his trust when we never even got off the ground? Maybe it’s my inexperience talking, but I thought the night we shared was special. The text he sent me telling me he can’t stop thinking about me meant something to me. Maybe it was just words for him—another shot at the virgin.
My cheeks burn even as the thought enters my brain again. I cannot believe Colin had the nerve to bring up my virginity to Grayson. To be fair, he handled it smoothly in the moment, but clearly he was taken aback by it.
And he wants to talk about it. He brought it up again when Colin left.
What am I supposed to tell him? That I had a crush on him since I was a preteen, and he made my childhood fantasies come true?
Okay, no. Come to think of it, that actually sounds pretty disgusting.
But the sentiment is there. How many people get to say they got to have sex with the guy who they’ve crushed the hardest on their entire life?
I do.
And I’m not going to pretend I didn’t love every second.
But now I’m in a jam, and I’m not sure how to get out of it…unless he agrees to my plan.
If he does, then it’ll mean more time together—more time to figure out a way to get him to fall so in love with me that he won’t ever want to let me go.
Once I get off work, I slide behind the wheel of my car and stare at my phone. I draft a text, and before I lose my nerve, I hit send.
Me: Can we talk?
His reply is nearly immediate, as if he was sitting on his phone waiting for me. I’m sure he wasn’t. Right?
Grayson: I think we need to.
I stare at his words, and then my phone starts to ring, startling the hell out of me. I pick it up when I see it’s Grayson.
“Hey,” I answer quietly.
“Where are you?”
“I just got off work. I’m in the bakery parking lot.”
“I’m at the Palms. Come over.”
“Come over?” I repeat. Is he seriously commanding me to come over? This guy’s got a lot of nerve.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to come off rude. It’s…it’s been a day.”
I guess it was a day for me, too, and I’d rather go to the Palms than run into Colin at home. I should text Kelly and ask if she’s having to deal with him. God, I hope not.
“Have you seen the picture?” he asks out of the blue.
My brows dip together. “What picture?”
He clears his throat. “Your idiot ex sold the photo he took of us. It’s all over the internet, and I’m just standing by waiting for your brother to call me about it.”
I sigh. “I’ll be right over. I actually, uh…sort of came up with an idea that I’d like to run by you. It might help.”
“Valet your car when you get here. I’ll meet you down there.”
“Okay. Fair warning, I smell like cookies and have flour everywhere.”
