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Speaking of cupcakes, Will wants two dozen off your special menu to take on the road after the wedding.” “ The, erm, peach kind?” “ The peach kind, ” Lindsey said. “ I like the peach kind, ” Josh said. Mikey had named them Sex on a Peach. And they were Kimmie’s second biggest seller, after the Hairy Dicks, which were coconut cake balls strategically placed with Dahlia’s chocolate-covered, ice cream-filled bananas. And Josh’s frown had disappeared, and now he was grinning as if he knew it. All of it.Jamie Farrell
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A fake ring. A fake engagement. Fake love. Everything was fake. Shiny and put together on the outside, empty on the inside.Jamie Farrell
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Her eyes slid closed, her secret places pulsed in anticipation, and his lips settled onto the skin beneath her ear. That was magic. She held perfectly still. He pressed a kiss to her neck. Then another, lower. A third, even lower. She squirmed. He dropped his hands. “Sorry. I---“ “Don’t stop, ” Kimmie whispered.Jamie Farrell
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In the third cabinet under the counter, she hit the good stuff. “Oh! You have a KitchenAid.” “If you’re planning on caressing my mixer, you should know that might make my testicles explode, ” he said from behind her. Her cheeks went hot enough to glow. “That would be awkward.Jamie Farrell
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Your mother can’t hear you here.” “Distance is no match for my mother’s eavesdropping and mind-reading skills.” “ I had steel anti-mind-reading plates installed this week. Specially designed to be Marilyn-proof. Also sounds an alarm if she gets within two hundred yards of the building, and I sent the guards downstairs to ninja training. You’re safe.Jamie Farrell
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Josh squeezed her arm. “I’ll behave, ” he murmured. “For now.” She’s going to pickle your cucumbers.” “ He has more than one?” Natalie whispered. “ That’s between me and Kimmie, ” Josh replied.Jamie Farrell
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Heaven’s Bakery help them all.Jamie Farrell
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He was the most handsome nightmare she had ever met.Jamie Farrell
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He was sort of Kimmie’s boss. And he wasn’t just a thorn in General Mom’s side — he was a whole stinking rosebush. If the rosebush were six feet of hunky, cake-blaspheming, rich playboy.Jamie Farrell
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If my mom sees you here, she’ll ---“ “Paper the walls with my innards while the innocents watch?Jamie Farrell
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But he knew how to kiss a woman until she needed his kisses more than she needed to breathe. Until her bones melted. Until she gave him exactly what he wanted.Jamie Farrell
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Is he nice?” one whispered over her gum paste roses for this weekend’s wedding cakes. “ Um, obviously, ” Kimmie said. “ You’re why he’s always coming around? I know he’s hot stuff in Chicago, but he always seems so stiff when he comes here, ” another added from the sink. “ Honey, you want them stiff, ” a third said…Jamie Farrell
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Right on time, sugar.” Josh draped his arm around her shoulders and steered her through the lobby. “Traffic okay?” “ Yeah, except when that alien spaceship landed on I-90 and then all those crickets jumped out to perform Beethoven’s Fifth on kazoos. Otherwise, clear sailing.Jamie Farrell
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Are those the Edible Undies cupcakes?” one of the women in the kitchen asked. “ They’re the Nipple Lickers, ” Kimmie answered. “Without the nipples.” “ I heard you perfected the Sex on a Peach cupcakes, ” another feminine voice said. “ Can you squeeze me in for a double order of Spank Me Strawberries the weekend before Knot Fest?Jamie Farrell