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“Oh, shit, you’re right.” In my worry over doing a good job and making Maven proud, it didn’t occur to me about the uptick in sales that Maven likes to call the gossip tax.
“Kenna! Let’s add a two-for-one special on cookies and cupcakes.”
Kenna’s head pops into the kitchen, smiling widely. “Two for one on cookies and cupcakes. Anything on the bread?”
I nod and think about what Maven would do in this situation. We make good profits on the bread, so we can afford a discount. “Yeah, let’s do buy one loaf and get one half-off.”
That’s good. Right? I try to sound confident, but I’m going to run it all by Maven if I can get in to see her today. “Cool?”
Kenna nods a little too enthusiastically. “I’ll write ’em up on the specials board.” She disappears, and Letty laughs.
“I think someone is excited to get out of the clubhouse and off baby duty,” Letty says with a shake of her head.
“Now that giddiness makes sense.” It’s not like Kenna, even on her best behavior, to be so cheerful. “I think she got some really good dick last night.”
“You’re bad,” Letty says, a bright blush starting to bloom on her cheeks.
“And that blush tells me you’re the one who got some good dick this morning. Or last night. Recently, anyway.” I stare at Letty as her face gets redder and redder before a loud laugh explodes out of me.
“Willow,” she sighs like an exasperated soccer mom.
“Sorry, not sorry,” I tell her and pour more flour into the giant floor mixer. “I’d like to get some dick sometime, for sure!”
The swinging door pushes open, and Letty and I look up at the same time as Joaquin stands there, looking like a fish out of water among all the flour and sugar.
“Ladies.” He flashes a wide grin that makes his brown skin look like burnt honey. “Smells amazing in here.”
Letty laughs. “Gotta love a man who appreciates the smell of fresh baked bread.”
He grins even wider. “I’ll be sure to let Shades know you said so.”
“I didn’t…never mind.”
Joaquin and I both laugh. “Don’t tease the baker,” I tell him and swat in his general direction. “What are you doing here?” I ask with a flirty smile. I wonder if he’d heard my last comment to Letty. “Not that I’m unhappy to see your handsome face, especially since you couldn’t even go a few hours without seeing my face.”
He stands a little taller, puffing his chest out before he rolls his eyes. “I’m here to take you for a ride,” he practically purrs in my direction. I feel that deep sound settle low in my belly and shoot heat through my arms and legs.
“Is this a naked ride or…something else?”
Letty gasps. “Willow!”
Joaquin lets out a deep masculine laugh. “I’ll have to get back to you on that, babe. For now, I mean a ride to see Maven.”
“Oh. Oh!” First, disappointment whirls through me, and then excitement at seeing for myself that Maven is all right. “Right! Cool.” I turn to Letty. “Are you gonna be good for a few hours?”
Letty nods. “We’ll be fine. Both of us. I promise.”
“Okay. If you need anything, just call me, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be off inside the jail.” I nod and look around the kitchen, nervous about leaving but desperate to see Maven. “All right. Let’s go, handsome.”
I eye Joaquin’s bike with excitement. The last time I was on the back of his bike, I was shit-faced and upset, so I didn’t get to fully enjoy it like I will now. “Memories,” he asks with a hint of a smile in his tone.
I look up. “You remember that night?”
He nods. “Hot drunk chick on the back of my bike? Hell, yeah, I remember, especially how handsy you were.”
“Was I?”
He nods, smiling brightly and teasingly.
