JUNIPER’S POV:Today is another lazy weekend for me, with Hiram out of town. Well, not exactly lazy—I’m at the bakery, waiting tables while texting Hiram. Sally doesn’t make it in today, so she leaves Rhea and me in charge. It’s day three of my fever, and while I feel better, I’m still not up for much.“I’ll handle the deliveries and grab what we need at the market,” Rhea says as I wrap a freshly baked pastry and place it on a plate.“Thanks, Rhea. I love you,” I reply, smiling as I turn to her.She scrunches her nose.“Yeah, because Mr. Hot Professor is out of town. If he wasn’t, I wouldn’t even be an option. You’d just pay me off to go sit on his lap.”I chuckle as she leans in to kiss my cheek. “I’m off,” she says, grabbing her things.My phone beeps, and a smile spreads across my face as I glance at the screen, reading his text in my mind.“Just woke up. What are you up to, love?”“And now he’s texted back, making me completely irrelevant,” Rhea teases, rolling her eyes.I scoff,
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