Chapter 0430

I set out to show Julian what having a real girlfriend should be like as soon as I could, so early the next morning, I dressed in my cutest sundress and showed up to his door with a basket of fresh bread I plucked straight from

the kitchen. It was still warm.

I knocked on his door. Brian opened it, and his eye twitched in what I assumed was surprise. It was the most emotion I had ever seen out of him.

“Is Julian awake yet?” I asked.

“He’s getting dressed,” Brian said. Before I could ask to come in, Brian

stepped back and let me inside the room.

I stood just inside the door in Julian’s sitting room. Brian glanced at me again, before disappearing into what must have been the bedroom. A moment later, Julian himself came bursting out.

“Piper? To what do I owe the pleasure?”

I held out the basket. “I thought we could spend some time together today.”

He walked closer, glanced into the basket, and then snatched a handful of the bread. He bit into it, chewed, and swallowed.

days, and with our final dress–rehearsal tomorrow, Bridget personally requested that everyone take it easy today. It

to have a date

part of your elaborate plan to

asked.

said. There was no reason to hide it. I’d been upfront from

continue to be, I reasoned.

head. “You don’t have to do this.”

“We’re friends, and I won’t rest until you recognize how important you

out a laugh as he rolled

like that he was convinced to

the garden,” I said. “It’s

still a few hardy regulars, but for the most part, the biggest danger had passed. At least from what I could tell.

sure some tension still simmered under the surface, but

again serving

I took his hand in

squeezed my fingers.

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