Chapter 20 Dexter I give it three days .
Three whole days of impatiently ordering food I despise and waiting for her to show up in the flesh , only for Juniper Winkley to freeze me out like the arctic ice witch she is .
By day four , Im done waiting .
Im done trying to talk nice with her , too .
If she wont meet me while Im paying a princely sum for her pastries , then Ill say what I need to in a letter sweetened with a check .
A disgustingly large check worth more than any big wad of sugar ever churned out of her shop .
I almost reconsider this idiocy , but I cant .
Theres no talking my way out of an engagement I flippantly announced to a man with our future in his greedy hands .
If I blow this deal with Forrest Haute , his big mouth could easily do collateral damage , too .
Word gets around in this biz , especially when youre rising stars in the Kansas City rental market .
So I seal the damn envelope with the check and stick it in my car .
She has to come out of that store sometime , and when she does , Ill be there .
Not to talk to her , of course .
Clearly , she isnt into that .
If shell just take the money and buy her store some help , well all be better off .
I pull up outside the Sugar g Five minutes to s and kill the engine .
which means I shouldnt miss her .
Shes not the type to leave early .
Its too easy to imagine her cleaning or hunched over an ancient computer in the back office or maybe a battered old stack of recipe books , combing their pages like a proper ice witch looking for lost culinary magic .
She has a work ethic , at least .
When six oclock hits , I Just like I thought .
Now I just need to see a shadowy figure approach the glass door, swinging the Open sign to Closed .
The neon lights flicker off .
wait for her to leave , either through the front door or the little side door that leads down the alley to the back of the building .
A couple minutes later , as settling in for the long haul , an older woman stops in front of the store and glances up at the sign .
The lady squints at it like shes trying to decide if this is the right address .
I sit up straight .

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If she even thinks about- Without even a seconds hesitation , she pushes her way through the door and heads inside .
Fuck , that does it .
I do not have time for this .
If Sweet Stuff has time for a casual visitor or some Jenny come lately picking up a cake , then she absolutely has time for a giant idiot whos busting his balls to pay for her products just to jack up his employees A1C scores and pray for an audience with her highness .
Ready or not , I mutter , here the fuck I come .
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