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Chapter Six
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Baylee walked into Jamie’s Java and looked around. Meg and Maggie were already there. She waved to them then got in line to order a coffee. The bakery was closed on Mondays, her one day off per week, and although she had a laundry list of things to get done, she protected girlfriend time like a hawk.
She grabbed her iced latte from the counter and joined her friends. Maggie looked a little bigger than last time she saw her, which was funny since it had only been just over a week ago at Kate’s wedding. But Baylee was not one to judge. She gained more than enough weight when pregnant with Casey and still had a pesky few pounds left to lose from it almost six years later. She smiled as she sat down. Casey was worth every pound.
“What are you grinning about?” Maggie asked.
“I’m guessing the hot date she had last week,” Meg teased before attempting to hide behind her coffee mug as she took a sip.
Baylee glared at her.
“Oooh, gossip starting right out of the shoot. I’m so glad I came today.” Maggie smiled at Baylee.
She cursed the blush that rose in her cheeks. Darn her fair skin. She might as well wear a sign that said she’d had more fun with Drew that day than she’d had in a long time, that she’d thought about him every day since, and that she was baffled she hadn’t seen hide nor hair from him since. Let alone a phone call or… anything. That his kiss had left her spinning. Apparently, not so much for him.
She shrugged, hoping her friends would let it go.
“Oh, you’re not getting away with a little shrug, girlfriend.” This from Meg.
Meg was the first friend Baylee had made when she moved to Silver Bay. Meg owned and ran the local diner she’d inherited from her dad when he died. She was a tireless workhorse, really. Tough as nails. Relentless too. Which meant Baylee should’ve known that telling Meg about her outing with Drew wasn’t going to end with an “Oh, that’s nice.” Details would be desired. Pulled or beaten out of Baylee to be more exact.
“It was a picnic. Lunch between friends.” She sipped her latte to hide her grin. It didn’t work.
“Ha! Keep telling yourself that one, blondie.”
Baylee shook her head and laughed at her friend. “What? We’re friends. I met him like a week ago.”
“Yeah, but you know all about him from Kate,” Maggie offered.
“That doesn’t mean we’re closer than friends though. It just means I know of him because I’m friends with his sister.”
“That gleam in your eye says otherwise.”
Baylee rolled her eyes. Yep. Meg was totally relentless.
“How did you end up having lunch together anyway?” Maggie asked.
“Well, we danced together at Jack and Kate’s wedding, which was not a big deal”—she glared at Meg who merely waved her hand as if to say whatever—“and then he came by the bakery a few days later.”
“He just happened to wander in to the bakery? Alone? Hmph, no agenda there.”
Baylee ignored Meg. “I brought him some of my coffee cake and we got talking and then he invited me to lunch. Me and Casey, actually, which proves it was never intended to be a date.”
“Sheesh, if you offered me your coffee cake I’d marry you on the spot.” Maggie rubbed her belly.
Baylee laughed. “You’re pregnant. Every kind of food sounds good to you.”
“No. She’s right. Pregnancy has nothing to do with it. I’d kill for your coffee cake. Wait. You brought Casey with you? You didn’t tell me that.” Meg’s tone wasn’t teasing now.
She adored Casey. Was the one main person in Silver Bay Baylee trusted with him besides her mother.
“No. I decided to leave him home.”
“See. Date.”
She looked at Maggie. “No. He invited me to lunch but I said I’d have to get a sitter. He then said to bring Casey along.”
