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7

MARA

It feels good to be back at Sweet Maple. This place has been my anchor

through some of the most chaotic times in my life.

So has Arthur. He might be the only man who’s ever done something kind for

me without trying to put his hand on my ass afterward.

“There she is,” Arthur says, chucking my apron directly into my face. “You

know you’re in the paper this morning?”

“I am?”

He tosses that at me too, already helpfully folded back at the right page.

It’s an article in the Chronicle, in the arts section. Just two columns on the

bottom of a page, but it includes a large color photograph of The Mercy of

Men, and a smaller picture of me, lifted off my Instagram.

This is Cole’s doing, I’m sure.

He’s constantly working behind the scenes, pushing me into the spotlight. He

seems to get more pleasure out of grabbing attention for me than for himself.

I try to catch his eye, where he’s seated himself at the furthest corner table,

but true to his word, he’s not distracting me and is only quietly taking out his

laptop like any normal business-bruncher. Assuming that person just so

happened to look like an off-duty supermodel in a cashmere button-down.

Arthur raises one thick, grizzled eyebrow at me.

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