Sinful by Marie Rochelle Page B

what was on the inside. She hadn’t known him long enough to be getting gifts from him.
    “What’s in here? Should I be getting presents from you?” she asked, walking over to a small table.
    “Why don’t you open them up and find out?” Casper suggested.
    Not wasting another minute, she opened the large box gasping at the bakery boxes on the inside with Sinful designed across the top in beautiful black lettering. She was speechless. Maymi swallowed a few times trying to regain her composure.
    “Do you like them?” Casper asked, leaning over her shoulder. “I still felt bad for ruining the other ones, so I had these made to take care of the ones I couldn’t fix.”
    “My God...these are beautiful but they’re too expensive. I mean the lettering alone would put me back two months. I can’t accept them. It wouldn’t be right.” Maymi tried reclosing the lid, but Casper’s hand shot out and stopped her.
    “I won’t take them back. Besides, my buddy who did them owed me a favor and I got them at a discount. There’s also another reason I got these made for you,” he admitted, softly.
    Taken back by the sudden change in Casper’s usually carefree voice, Maymi turned around and was caught off guard by the serious look in his eyes.
    “If you hadn’t helped my brother that night something could have happened to him. I know Jensen has been a pain in your ass about your bakery. You could have ignored his situation and walked away and not one person would have known about it.
    “He can be a hard man to like, even love, when he’s trying to get his point across, but I love my brother. I don’t tell him that enough and I probably won’t ever confess it unless I’m really pushed. However, I still have him here trying to dictate my every move and I’ve you to thank for that. Thank you.”
    She opened her mouth to say something but no words came out. How was she supposed to tell him something after that little confession? Who knew Casper could be so deep?
    “Hey, I made you speechless and that usually only happens after a woman sees me naked,” he joked.
    Snap . Maymi was suddenly jerked out of her world of silence. Only Casper could bring up sex inside of a bakery.
    “Alright, I think you need to leave,” she said, giving him a small shove in the shoulder. “You are preventing me from finishing up the last of my orders. I can’t have your crazy humor side-tracking me.”
    “Oh, you’ll be thinking about me all day,” Casper teased, wiggling his eyebrows. “Unless, it’s my brooding brother who has captured your attention; I noticed how the two of you were awful close before I came through the door. It was so hot I almost walked away.”
    “If there’s anything hot in Sinful, it’s the oven and nothing else,” Maymi denied as she opened the door and shoved Casper outside to the sidewalk.
    “Come on, sweetness. I know my brother can be a complete jerk; but he was blessed in the looks department. Of course, not as much as me but certain woman find that dark, tortured soul look of his sexy.”
    Maymi honestly didn’t know what to say. Casper was either out of his mind or loved pushing her to the edge when it came to Jensen. Either way, she wasn’t going to take the bait because he was seeing something that wasn’t there.
    “Okay, time for you to leave for real now,” she told him. Maymi tried to closing the front door but a huge size thirteen shoe wedged its shelf inside the door.
    “Alright, I apologize for teasing you about my brother. I can’t get the best baker in Wyoming mad at me. Can you forgive me?” Big, blue eyes stared at her followed by a crooked, boyish grin.
    “God, you are incorrigible.” Maymi laughed, rolling her eyes. “How can I stay mad at you? I forgive you.”
    “I knew you would,” Casper bragged then removed his foot and turned, going down the sidewalk towards his job.
    Maymi watched her new buddy walk away until his back rounded the corner. Thankfully, Casper