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Kelly glared at Marley. They’d known each other a long time, and while Kelly had been Marley’s employer for seven years, they were also friends. Now, Marley did freelance editing for self-published authors and was doing well. She was also very involved in the Buzzard Gulch project, which was her baby.
Still, today was not the day to mess with Kelly.
“I think it has something to do with Christian,” Rylie said.
“You, hush, or I’ll find myself another baker.”
Marley snorted. “Not one whose cakes taste as fantastic as Rylie’s. At least not within a hundred miles.”
Kelly pointed her finger at Marley. “You’re annoying, you know that?”
“Seriously, I’ve never seen you like this,” Rylie said, putting the green stretch wrap around the gauze. “What happened?”
Kelly did not want to talk about it, mostly because she felt like such a damn fool. She’d let her hormones get the best of her and jumped Chris. He’d given her every opportunity to run for the hills and she’d been like a puppy starved for affection. Coming off like a clingy, crazy woman. If she’d gone out with a guy for the first time, she wouldn’t have slept with him and even after they did, she wouldn’t have started in about their future. That would have been crazy.
She would have been cool. Given nothing away. At least, that’s what she hoped she’d have done, because she hadn’t been that way with Chris.
“Kelly?” Marley prodded.
Her friends sat there, staring at her like she was losing her damn mind.
And maybe she was.
“Have you ever done something completely out of character?”
Both Rylie and Marley looked at each other and burst out laughing. Marley raised her hand.
“Got involved with the best man of a wedding I was working.”
“And I fell I love with my co-worker at Something Borrowed,” Rylie chimed in.
“So yeah, I think we’ve both done some things that were completely out of character, but only because they were the right thing for us.” Marley cocked her head, studying Kelly. “What did you do?”
Kelly took a drink of her coffee and smiled sheepishly. “Chris. Twice.”
Marley’s jaw dropped while Rylie squealed, “I knew it! I knew you and Chris had the hots for each other.”
“Yeah, but I don’t really know if we do. He said he got caught up in the moment and that he was worried he was going to lose me to someone else.”
“Excuse me?” Marley said.
“Yeah, and, he said he didn’t know what the future would hold for us and is afraid of losing me if we don’t work out.”
“He gave you the ‘your friendship means so much to me that I am afraid dating will ruin it’ talk?” Rylie said.
Kelly and Marley turned to an outraged Rylie.
“That is the biggest load of horseshit!”
Kelly threw up one hand in solidarity. “That’s what I said, but now I am wondering if I overreacted.”
Marley shook her head. “Um, no. First, relationships are rough, and there is no room for cowardice. If you want someone, you must go for it, because they might not wait for you.”
“So, do you want Chris?” Rylie asked.
“I don’t know!” Kelly groaned. “I have no idea what I want. I mean, he’s the person that knows me better than anyone. We have so much in common and we get along great together.”
“How was the sex?” Marley asked.
