Chapter 42

I fell asleep around 12:00 a.m. after finishing cleaning up from the night’s festivities. Today was the Friday meet-up, so I got up before three in the morning to make extra bread and baked goods. Since coming back from New York, I was sleeping a max of 4 hours a night anyways, so it didn’t matter. By the time David showed up, I had three batches of four different baked goods already cooling. Not including tripling my bread batches.

“Holy cow.” David placed a bag of flour on the shelf. “How long have you been up?”

“Hours?” I laughed, brushing some hair out of my face. “Do you want a muffin to go with your coffee?”

“You know I could never say no.”

“Let me grab your coffee. Hold on a second.”

I headed to the front and made his coffee. I already had warmed up the machines at around three-thirty, so it was immediately ready. Pouring the cup, I put the lid on it and placed a fresh muffin in a to-go container. Heading back, I saw David was placing two large bags on my counter.

“What