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Burke’s Bakery is both my biggest accomplishment and one of my biggest problems. I love it.
smells like crunching leaves and breezes that bite. There’s a hint of something warm in the air too—baked bread of some kind.
Maybe a pie or biscuits in the oven. Mazzy Star hums from my neighbor’s open window.
He’s so different from me. If I’m autumn, he’s spring. He’s all
smiles and glowing warmth. His blue eyes are so deep, like the first beautiful clear sky of the season.
He likes to rest them on my breeze-blown hair, drift them down to my painted lips or to the cardi...
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sheepishly confess, “Men don’t want women like me.” “Like what?”
Unfun, too serious, workaholics. “I don’t know,” I mumble.
wicked smile. “I think men secretly want women just like you,” he growls, leaning even closer. “And t...
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The world tilts. It suddenly feels like I’m falling through the ground, straight to the center of the earth. God, she’s breathtaking.
“You’re very easy to like, Cliff,” I say. “I was serious. I don’t like most people. But you were right; I do like you. So, don’t apologize for your jokes now. I enjoy them.”
“Don’t do something you think you’ll regret,” I whisper.
He shakes his head without hesitation. “I wouldn’t regret this.”
And that—that right there—is the exact moment I know I need to kiss him. Because, despite Cliff taking a risk, he immediately backtracks when he thinks I’m uncomfortable. Because he’s that kind of friend. He’s that kind of man.
She isn’t cinnamon. She’s honey all the way through, and I need to taste it again.
“I really like him, Sara. And I don’t know what to do.”
I don’t want to go on more dates. I want Michelle. Not as a friend. Not as a fling. I want her.
“I want you to be happy and—” His next words almost come out in a whisper. “Have you ever thought I might be happy with you?”
I tense, taking in a shaky breath. “You can’t mean that.” “I almost wish I didn’t.” “But you said—”
“I say so many things that I don’t know what comes out of my mouth half the time,” he says. “But you do…you make me hap...
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damn head with thoughts of you that I can’t get rid of. So, what do I d...
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And it hits me. I love this woman.
I don’t know when it happened. It slipped over me so softly, like the changing of seasons.
The seeping scent of baked bread first thing in the morning. A wistful sigh...
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head. “I love that you roll your eyes when I make stupid jokes. I love that you argue with your dog when you think nobody’s watching.
love that you have coffee at night and that you don’t dress up for Halloween. And I love how great you are with my girls.
I told myself I would never ask someone to stay with me again. But I...
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