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Despite being a platypus shifter who could handle cold water for hours at a time,
he was a complete and total baby about winter.
Jackass Robbie at the bank had laughed when he'd said the business loan was for a cupcake shop.
No one had thought he'd be able to compete with Rise and Shine, the town bakery that'd been going strong for nearly thirty years now.
Now here he was, six years later, doing a brisk business in muffins and cupcakes.
he'd thought that he and Tadeo, who currently ran the bakery and would inherit ownership someday, were becoming friends.
never hidden he'd wanted to open a cupcake shop,
A pudgy, good-for-nothing raccoon shifter who could only steal from others and had nothing original of his own to offer.
He'd always hated his hair—thick, straight, fluffy, and unable to pick a single direction no matter what he did,
Combined with a squashed-looking nose and eyes the color of mud, and an overall 'meh' appearance,
his hopes were tenuously spread between a silly crush on his manager and a ridiculous infatuation with Officer Yamada.
he was a good cop, a crane shifter, and his parents had immigrated from Japan.
"There's a fucking alligator in our shop!
"It's Tadeo."
He hadn't talked to them since the incident had happened and did his damnedest to stay as far away from them, literally and figuratively, as possible.
"Apparently there's rumors that you're being bought out—some
so everyone came clamoring for the gossip and most of them got conned into buying cupcakes.
five extra orders for you in the morning, you're welcome and my apologies."
No, he'd never had a date because nobody wanted to date a fat trash panda who liked food, like some sad cliché.
This whole time he thought he'd quietly been suffering a couple of harmless crushes and bothering nobody.
"You were crying in your sleep."
Oakley made a face. "How very dashing and attractive of me."