Peppermint Pudding Peril by Tammy Beck EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Tammy Beck
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The blue doors still smelled like paint when I straightened the Christmas
wreath against the door, but they were dry to the touch when I pushed them
open and stepped into the bakery. The air was filled with the scent of a
renovation. It wasn’t the smell that belonged in a bakery just yet—that
would come—but the renovation had finally been complete, and the bakery
would open for business this weekend.
The year 1959 was almost over and with a new decade would come a
new era for me, not as a librarian, but as the baker I’d always dreamed of
being.
I took a deep breath and it let it out slowly, my breath creating clouds in
the cold air. The bakery would warm up as soon as we started the ovens, but
for now, the newly painted walls barely kept out the winter chill.
“It looks incredible,” Isaac said, following behind me.
“It does,” I agreed.
“And now the rest of the world finally gets to taste the treats you’ve
been fattening me up with over the past year and a half.”
I chuckled and tucked a strand of dark hair behind my ear.
Isaac had always been my biggest supporter and my biggest fan. He’d
been the first to sample my baked goods when I still worked at the library,
and he’d been the one to spread the word. That had been the start, the first
glimmer of hope that my dreams of becoming a renowned baker could
become a reality.
“Now all we need is a white Christmas,” he added.
Snow had not yet fallen, despite how late it was in the year. Everyone
was hoping for a Christmas miracle—a flurry of snow that would turn
Christmas into a winter wonderland as was so normal for the small Maine
town.
“It will come,” I said. “I have a feeling Christmas is going to be perfect
this year.”
Isaac smiled and nodded, before he glanced at the time. “I have to go.
We’re doing rehearsals for the parade with the kids,” he said. He pulled his
cap back over his blonde hair–graying at the temples.
He pulled me closer into a quick hug before he left, and I watched him
leave.
Isaac and I had started as friends, but lately, there seemed to be more.
Nothing was ever said out loud, but the way he looked at me sometimes, the
way he touched me…
Maybe I was just imagining things, but after I’d been alone for a long
time, I wanted companionship, someone to understand me. I was in my
forties and accustomed to being single, but when I was with Isaac, he drove
away the loneliness that had become my constant companion and it let me
think about sharing a future with someone again.
Isaac understood me in a way I hadn’t felt understood in years.
I shook off the thoughts and focused on what lay ahead. The opening
would be soon, and there was still much to do. I could daydream about a
crush later.
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