Christmas at the Candied Apple Café. Katherine Garbera
Читать онлайн книгу.too. “Put me down for two. I’ll find someone to bring along.”
“I will, you know it’s fine if it’s just you. It really is going to just be our closest friends … in fact Xavier — you remember him? He works with Garrett on the force … he’s single and he’ll be there,” Cici said.
She shook her head. Xavier was still in love with his ex-wife. Anyone who’d spent ten minutes talking to him could easily see that. Xavier was a detective who worked with Hayley’s fiancé and had been divorced for a year. “You should invite his ex. He still loves her.”
“Really?”
“Yes. He did nothing but talk about her at the cook-out that Garrett and Hayley had at Labor Day weekend.”
“Interesting. I think he has two kids. Maybe I’ll suggest we make it family-friendly,” Cici said. “But that still leaves us stuck for someone for you.”
“I said I’d bring someone,” Iona said firmly. “And I will.”
“Okay,” Cici said, reaching across the small table and putting her hand on Iona’s. “I was hoping that things would have worked out with Nico.”
“Me too,” she said. Cici and Hoop had gone on her first date with the Greek millionaire.
“Are you two having fun without me?” Hayley said, coming from the back of the store and her candy kitchen.
“I thought you were in the kitchen concocting greatness,” Iona replied.
Hayley’s blonde hair had grown out since last January, when she’d shorn it all off, and it now brushed her shoulders. She had on a pair of leggings and a thick tunic sweater. “As a matter of fact, I had a genius idea for a new truffle that I have made some samples of. And I need your opinions.”
Hayley put a small plate on the table between the three of them. There were six truffles lined up in white, milk, and dark chocolate.
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