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Chapter 6
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2026-09-10 14:39:44
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Marked By Mistake: The Baker's Secret Chapter 12
(Roman's POV)"I think something is wrong with her." Marcus did not look up from the paperwork spread across his desk, though the flat, certain way I said it seemed to be enough to get his attention anyway."With Ivy?, why did you think so?""She has not returned three of my calls this week. She changed the pickup routine for Hazel without telling me why. And yesterday, when I stopped by, she flinched when the bell over the door rang, before she even saw who it was."Marcus set down his pen slowly. "You have been keeping count I see""That is not the point Marcus" I retorted "It is a little bit the point." He smiles, he leaned back, studying me with the particular patience he reserved for moments he suspected I would not appreciate being questioned. "What do you think is going on?" He asked That was, unfortunately, the exact question I had been turning over for days without landing on an answer I liked."I do not know. Something has her scared. More scared than the general unease a
Marked By Mistake: The Baker's Secret Chapter 11
(Ivy's POV)"Do you notice that car?"Denise's voice, low and careful, pulled me away from the register, and I followed her gaze out the front window to where a dark sedan sat parked across the street, engine idling, windows tinted just enough that I could not make out who was inside."Uhm uhm, the black car?" I said calmly. "People park across the street all the time, Denise.""Well not for an hour plus now, they do not."My stomach tightened, an old, familiar unease settling low and cold beneath my ribs, the same feeling that had been creeping up on me for days now, long before any car, long before any postcard, something wordless and instinctive that I could not quite explain even to myself."Its probably nothing, Denise" I said, mostly to convince myself."Probably." Denise did not sound convinced either.I watched the car for another minute, willing it to pull away, and eventually it did, easing back into traffic and disappearing around the corner without incident, and I told mys
Marked By Mistake: The Baker's Secret Chapter 10
(Roman's POV)"You understand what it looks like, do you not?"Councilman Ferris folded his hands ontop of the long table, his expression carefully neutral in the way that always meant he was building toward something considerably less neutral, and I resisted the urge to check the time on my phone for the third time in five minutes."Enlighten me." I said calmly "The Alpha of Darkwood, spending the better part of every week in a human facing bakery, in a town with no standing pack presence, courting the attention of a woman with no verified lineage and a child of uncertain parentage." He said it lightly, almost conversationally, which only made it worse. "It raises questions, Roman. Questions I would rather answer before someone outside this room starts asking them first.""There is nothing to answer. I am overseeing wedding logistics for my cousin, it’s as simple as that""For six weeks.""Weddings take time." I shruggedAcross the table, Daylan Ferris did not look up from the folde
Marked By Mistake: The Baker's Secret Chapter 9
(Ivy's POV)"Mommy, Roman's hands are magic." My daughter exclaimed with excitementI nearly dropped the piping bag for the second time that week, whipping around to find my daughter perched on the counter, flour dusted from her nose to her overalls, watching Roman attempt, badly, to frost a test cupcake under her extremely critical supervision.I had no idea why I allowed him to frost a cupcake in the first place, he must’ve sweet talked me into it."Is that so honey." I smiled without looking up"He made the swirly part go all the way around without stopping." Hazel said this with the grave seriousness of a food critic delivering a verdict. "That is very hard, Mommy. You told me so yourself.""It is very hard," I agreed, fighting another smile."I had a good teacher," Roman said, not looking up from his careful, painfully slow piping technique, tongue caught between his teeth in concentration that looked entirely out of place on a man who led an entire pack."You had five minutes of
Marked By Mistake: The Baker's Secret Chapter 8
(Roman's POV)"Tell me about her."Ivy went very still across the small table, a fork halfway to her mouth, and I watched something complicated move behind her eyes before she set it back down."About who?""You know who." I turned my glass slowly on the table between us, watching the candlelight catch in it rather than watching her, giving her whatever small mercy I could manage. "Mari."The silence stretched long enough that I almost took it back, almost told her to forget I had asked, but then she exhaled, slow and careful, and began."She was loud." A faint, unguarded smile touched her mouth, the first real one I had seen all night. "Obnoxiously loud. She used to sing in the hallways between classes, badly, on purpose, just to make people laugh.""I remember that." The memory surfaced easier than I expected, warm and uncomplicated in a way most of my memories of that year were not. "She sang the school song at every single pep rally like it was an opera.""She thought she was very
Marked By Mistake: The Baker's Secret Chapter 7
(Ivy's POV)"Four dozen cupcakes, two hundred favors, and a groom who cannot decide if he wants chocolate or vanilla. Tell me again why I agreed to this." I asked frustrated Denise's voice carried from the front of the bakery, deadpan and put-upon, and I laughed for what felt like the first time in days, flour dust rising in a small cloud as I dropped another tray onto the cooling rack."You agreed to it because it pays the electric bill for the next four months, I guess" he shrugged "Right. That was it." She poked her head into the kitchen, wiping her hands on her apron. "Also your future brother in law is out front. And he brought reinforcements.""He is not my—" I stopped myself, heat crawling up my neck. "Marcus is not anyone's anything to me." I spelt out"Uh huh." Denise's grin was entirely too knowing. "Come see for yourself then."I wiped my hands and followed her out front, where Marcus stood at the counter looking like a man who had lost an argument he did not remember sta
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