France?

Maricela

I read out the last order and it's taken out for delivery. I love my bakery, it's the one thing that made me confident and able to stand against dad when he thought rich kids and flour are definitely not associated.

He still thinks that way. Bread and Better has come a long way since I began, I wasn't going to stop anytime soon.

And while dad tried to make me reconsider I had support from my mum and my friend Gigi who's currently seated behind a table.

Gigi is brilliant and lovely, but half of every time I spend with her I try to figure out where her brains run off to….

" you are looking at me like that again"

"Like what " I push back a seat and settle on it, acting oblivious to whatever she meant.

" I don't know, like how you always look at me" she pops a candy into her mouth and points at my face.

" I don't know what you are talking about Gigi. Maybe you should elaborate" I smile and pop a candy into my mouth.

" whatever. This is not what I'm here for" she pushes forward a bit and leans in

" so, who's he" she whispers

"Who's who" I ask very clueless to what she wanted to know

" Mr. Handsome silly, what's his name"

I wasn't excited to announce whom I had spent the night with three days ago, but then again what's there to be excited about.

"About that, it's Lucas Cielo"

Gigi says nothing for the first few minutes.

" you mean The Lucas Cielo"

" no, his brother" I chuckle

" duhh he's got no brother" she mentions

"I know" it takes her a minute to respond

"Girllllllllll, you just landed the most sought after bachelor in LA. You're on top of the food chain omggggg" thankfully there are just few customers here and even if they heard anything, they didn't show.

"So have you called him"

I shake my head and sigh. What was I even going to say

" Three days??I knew it. Call him now" she looks at me like my mom would when I was too slow at something.

I decide to call him anyway. Right at the first ring…

After some minute…..

" so?"

"He's having a meeting. The secretary or whoever picked said she'll notify him when he's done" I hold onto my phone a bit dejected and somewhat hopeful.

" affluent people and their boring long meetings. He's prolly been in there for five hours" Gigi tries to encourage me to wait a bit. See if there's a call back.

And there is

"He's calling" I flash the phone towards Gigi and turn it back towards me.

"Mr Cielo, this is Miss Keegan " I say with as much confidence I can gather.

"Yes"

Could he say something more than that. I need him to.

"I just called to say thank you concerning that night and apologize if I went a bit wayward. Godd if only he could see how I'm blushing just saying that.

"My pleasure "again with his deep voice .i get short of words because I barely prepared for this, for him.

" if nothing else ...…

I wasn't attracted to this man yet , buh i wanted to be attracted to him and so I take a brazen step and try to work things out.

"

Lucas ?"

One minute turned to two and almost three

"Yes"

" I want to meet you again. Gigi looks at me like I've lost it. Maybe I have…

"When are you free?" He asks

"I'm free now " Gigi gives me thumbs up and urges me to continue.

" I've got a meeting in the next hour"

Shoot!!

"Tomorrow?"

"Business trip" Gigi mouths to me to put him on speaker. I nod and try to not laugh. I set the phone on the table as we both listen.

"Where" not that it's a part of my business.

"France and for three days" I was about saying yess before he brought up the number of days. I get a bit hesitant and he realises that…

"Call me again when you have an answer" I so want to call him again and so I do so..

"Im in, France" I say without sounding too excited. But I'm sure he's already noticed.

"I will have someone send you my flight info"

"Alright, have a good day" he responds and I end the call. I look at Gigi and we both scream.

"Pack your bags Girl, you're going to France" Gigi holds my hand and says to me

Yeahhh I'm going to France, with Luca Cielo. I hope this is the vacation i need.