Chapter 52: I Stress Bake

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The phone rings. "Don't answer it," Bennett hollers from the kitchen. I shake my head and pass over Pearl's chocolate blueberry muffin. I couldn't sleep last night so I came down and played for a few hours. Some people stress eat. I stress bake. And after 2 a.m. there's no telling what will come out of my oven. There are perks and problems to living above a bakery. "Don't shake your head like you don't enjoy having a handsome guy like Bennett in the back of your kitchen," Pearl clucks at me a few times while she takes her seat, balancing the muffin on a dainty plate. Bennett bumps me on his way through the metal doors in an effort to get the phone before it quits ringing. "The Bakery." Pearl has a point. Bennett's answered my phone for the past two days even though I haven't had any n

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