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“Yes. So if you could tell me when she’ll be back. I’d like to see it.”
“I can help you with that.”
She frowned at him. “Who are you?”
He smiled his crooked smile. “Xander Hutchins. I’m running the place for Betty while she’s gone.”
“While she’s gone? What’s that mean?”
He scowled. “It means she’s gone. She had a family emergency.”
“Did she finish the cake before she left on this family emergency?”
“Do you think you and your cake are more important than her family thing?”
“No. I didn’t mean—”
He interrupted her. “She didn’t. But I did.”
“You finished the cake?”
“Yes. And I took the liberty of adding a few things I believe improved the overall look.”
She glared at him. “You messed with the cake?”
He laughed. “No. I didn’t mess with it. I improved it.”
She stepped back from the counter and puther hands in her coat pockets. “May I see it?”
“Sure thing.”
He went back through the swinging doors and a few minutes later backed through it holding a beautiful wedding cake with yellow, pink, purple, and orange flowers wrapping around the three white layers in a spiral, ending in a splash of them at the base as though they tumbled down and formed a lovely pool of colors. He set it on the counter and she stepped closer to look at it.
He watched her for a moment. “What do you think?”
She glanced up at him. “Were the flowers on the bottom your idea?”
“Yeah. But it you don’t like it…”
“No. I do. It’s beautiful.”
“So, when’s your big day?”
She looked at him. “My big day?”
“Wedding cake?”
“Oh.” She smiled. “Not my big day. It’s for my father.”
He cocked his head. “Second marriage?”
“Obviously.”
He grinned. “And you have mixed feelings about that.”
She stepped back from the cake. “You don’t know me.”
“No. I don’t. But I know ambivalence when I see it.”
