Delicious (Cooking Up A Storm) (19 page)

“Yes, I’m crazy about you. I want to marry you. Oh and Cara?”

“Yes?”

“I don’t’ want you to take the offer from Brady.”

“I thought you wouldn’t tell me what to do? I thought you said this was the biggest chance in my career, that you couldn’t make that decision for me.”

“I lied. I want you here with me but I’m willing to do what you want. If you want to take the…”

“I’d already decided to refuse the offer,” she told him with a grin. Her arms circled his waist.

“You did?” She could feel his heartbeat. He was excited.

“Yes. I talked to
Shelby about it tonight. Before you and Miranda came home.” She punched him in the arm. “Remind me later to be mad at you for that. I told her if she wanted to take the offer, I would sell the cookie recipe to her and she could do whatever she wanted. Turns out, Shelby and I aren’t nearly as enterprising as we thought. We like things the way they are. And we want to start growing the catering business more. That’s really what I’ve wanted all along. The sweet shop was just a means to accomplishing that.”

“Are you sure?”

“I’m positive, Aiden. I’m not ready for that much success. I’d like 'Delicious' to stay just the way it is.”

“Me too. Well, with one exception,” he said and kissed her lips. “I’d like to marry its boss and make her every desire come true.”

The End

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Annie Walker
grew up in a small Texas town famous for, well not much of anything really. Being the baby of the family and quite a bit younger than her brothers and sister, Annie had plenty of time to entertain herself. Making up stories seem to come natural to her.

As a pre-teen,
Annie discovered romance novels and knew instinctively that was what she wanted to do with her over-active imagination.

S
he wrote her first novel as a teen, (it’s tucked away somewhere never to see the light of day), but never really pursued her writing career seriously until a few years later, when she wrote her first romantic comedy and was hooked.

Today,
Annie still lives in Texas, and still writes about romance. In fact, she can’t think of anything else she’d rather do.

Learn more about
Annie Walker at www.anniewalker.net.

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