David Miles and Richter Layover are young lovers from West Hollywood who move to Snowden to open a liberal and fun bakery called Cupcakes. What follows is a string of extraordinary men who enter their lives and change their matrimony and the bakery forever. Realtor Anthony Jarr, handsome and alluring, who lives above Cupcakes and considers himself an exceptional lover. When he meets Ryan Glayson, a professional cellist with a relentless urge for sweets, Jarr falls in love for the first time, turning his life into a topsy-turvy spin of surprising romance and selflessness. The magnetic and strange Stefan Pavlov is one of Cupcakes' regulars. Although he comes across as being sweet and charming, he has secrets that are quite damaging, which are exposed during a heated summer along the lake. Erich Misslow, a part-time employee at Cupcakes, becomes enamored with Pavlov, who is almost three times his age. Erich has always enjoyed the company of older men, but does Pavlov have too much peculiar baggage to share? Cupcakes also draws in Ken Eclipse, a charming underwear model with a taste for sweet men and sultry sex. Eclipse searches for Mr. Right like a slice of cinnamon cake for his appetite and personal needs. Can he find the man of his dreams at Cupcakes, or will he forever be single, enjoying the bakery's treats alone? These employees, friends, and lovers combine together with their individual recipes of bliss and loss, and the little bakery called Cupcakes comes to life as the sugary flavor of a gay neighborhood along the lake bursts into life.

Cupcakes

Approximately two minutes later Richter exited the rear area of the bakery and made a presence. He had flour on his arms and chin. He stood under the sign that read Employees Only,steered his view from the left to right, and asked, “Did we just have a customer?”


Hayden said, “No. Some man was trying to sell something.”


“Jewelry or something like that. I’m not really sure.” The lie slipped out of Hayden’s lips with ease. If anything in his eighteen years, he had learned how to lie. Most people believed he was straight and always honest, but that wasn’t so. If those certain people only knew the real Hayden Mitchell, they probably wouldn’t have liked him since he could drum up a pretty believable story on the spot.


“Did you make signs for the Brazil nut tea bread?”


“I need them put in the case before you leave.”


“I’m on it,” Hayden replied and went to work, rolling his eyes.  23: Diddling Daddies


Chapter 16