The Winner Bakes It All by Jeevani Charika EPUB & PDF

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• Authors: Jeevani Charika
• Language: English
• Genre: contemporary romance
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Elodie hit the call button on her phone with her little finger so that it didn’t
get sticky. Her hands had acquired a thin layer of icing sugar when she
delivered her last cake. She must have been too enthusiastic when she did
the dusting over the top of it.

Her mum’s voice came in through her earbuds.
‘Hi, Mum. You called?’
‘Oh yes, darling. I just wanted to remind you that you’re having dinner
with us on Friday night.’
Elodie had snuck out without her morning coffee to avoid these
conversations with her mother, so now she called Elodie to arrange things
instead.

‘I remember.’ She tucked the phone under her chin and fished a wet wipe
out of the glove compartment. ‘I’ll be there.’ She cleaned her hands on it.
‘Please wear something nice. And maybe do your hair properly, darling.
We will have a guest.’
Elodie paused, midway through wiping her fingers. ‘What sort of guest?’
‘Oh, a young man from your father’s work.’ The casual tone was so
forced, it practically squeaked. ‘Nothing sinister.’

Nothing sinister. Hah. Also ‘your father’s work’ was a dead giveaway.
Norma had met Elodie’s father while working in the HR department of a
law firm where he was a trainee. She’d given up work when her first child,
Elodie’s brother Travis, was born and had taken to the role of yummy
mummy and later society hostess like a duck to water. In recent years, she’d
started inviting new joiners to come round for dinner at the family home.
These dinners were becoming more frequent now. Elodie noticed she was
often invited if the young lawyer in question was a single man.

‘Mum,’ she said. ‘Please stop trying to set me up with lawyers.’
‘Dad says he’s very nice.’
‘Dad only goes in twice a week as a consultant. How would he know?’
‘He has his finger on the pulse.’ Her mother made an impatient little tut.
‘Besides, darling, you’re so busy with your little bakery project that you
hardly have a chance to meet anyone.’
Elodie narrowed her eyes at ‘little bakery project’. ‘You gave me four
years,’ she said, sternly.

‘We gave you until you were twenty-six,’ her mother countered. ‘When I
was your age, I was already pregnant with Travis. You are twenty-six in
four months. I have no choice but to introduce you to people. It’ll be too
late in a couple of years.’

Balling up the wet wipe, Elodie glared at the phone. She had learned long
ago not to bother arguing. Sulking still worked though. ‘I don’t want to,’
she said, through clenched teeth. ‘I think I’ll be busy on Friday.’
‘Elodie, don’t be moody,’ said Norma. ‘It’s … unbecoming.’

‘I have to go.’ She jabbed at the phone and cut the call. Then growled at
the interior of the car. She pounded her fists on the steering wheel for a few
seconds. It didn’t really help. She took a deep breath and centred herself.
Keeping a sense of perspective was important. Besides, she had work to do.
On the way back to the shop, she walked past the empty unit on the
corner of the arcade.

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