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By serving coffee, muffins, cupcakes, and sandwiches, I was, in soacy I always reet in line or walk toward the truck, I had their drinks waiting when they reached the

Grao, a few ht about him I still missed his café andthere with hiave o, and I would never go back

I could never go back

The town gossips would have a field day My mom would throw a fit

I looked over at The James Group Headquarters and wondered if Evan was still there doing whatever nerdy ga stuff he did

If ever a ht, it would be him The way his blue eyes crinkled when he s biceps made me dream about what hid beneath his washed-out t-shirts and threadbare jeans His wicked sense of humor and just-tumbled-out-of-bed look made me want to tumble into bed with him

But I couldn’t let anyone in Not even someone like Evan

I teased hia he had tia platforms in the world

They were all billionaires For all I knew, they could all be trillionaires, but as successful and as wealthy as they were, they went into the office every day and busted their butts They also headed up foundations for at-risk kids all over the world They ran nonprofits and free after school programs in every state and were always the first to lend a hand to those in need

I loved that they all had a strong work ethic and big hearts, but if I had their kind ofbonbons But perhaps even that would become mundane after a while

Evan and I had this flirty ga on He would ask ain, and I would coetting together How could he be? Why would a billionaire businessman want to date a food truck oith s, and a murky past? Not that he knew about my past, no one but the people from my hometown did

Evan Jahtly nerdy but a whole lot of hot Everything about hih as old boots Willow Sanders swooning over a guy The kids at the detention facility would laugh till they cried

I always told Evan no because getting close to hi I wanted to do If we fell in love and if he found out the truth about me, I didn’t want to have to run away rather than face his disappointment

My business had to co the space at the park The vendor who’d been here before me had retired You wouldn’t believe the underhanded, backstabbing tactics that had taken place to get the spot, but there was a good reason for that A permit and a food vendor’s license for a space in the city parkbucks

Instead of living from paycheck to paycheck, I now had money in h to cover me if I ever had to pick up and leave

I had an eular custoary treats For the first tiest time, I had roots, but I could easily rip up those roots if I needed to leave in a hurry I could take irl with a past like mine was always ready to run

I drove to Kitchen Crew—a place for people like me who couldn’t afford to rent a commercial kitchen full tiht and two hours in the

I set to work du upelse prepped for toht my cupcakes from a local bakery, and a deli supplied the sandwiches, but I made the muffins from scratch