Chapter Six
About three months until Christmas…
Maya was late. Of course. Her friends were supposed to know that she was overloaded these days. So why did they keep texting her? Over the past twenty minutes, she’d gotten messages from Kate, Jess, and Toni, all reminding her that they were gathering at Sweet Harbor Bakery for a girls’ night in.
Be there in a few, she texted Jess. Can you get everyone off my back?
I can buy you ten minutes.
Maya shook her head and turned her phone off.
One month ago, she never would have done that, in case her father needed her. But with Rune around, she didn’t worry nearly as much. At least forty percent less, anyway.
Ten minutes. She could finish up in that amount of time. She turned back to Ethan James, who’d stopped in to deliver his report on his
