“We know,” I said, shaking his hand profusely. “Thank you for giving us a chance.”
“It’s fine,” he said. “To be honest, I really want to sell it to you ladies rather than to him. He seems like a real asshole. Plus, I would rather see the building being put to good use. It’s part of our town’s history that I would hate to see destroyed.”
“Me, too,” said Tammy, nodding at me as if she was signaling that was time to leave.
We left feeling a little hopeful.
But, we still had to figure out how we were going to come up with the rest of the money.
Chapter Fifteen Candy
We drove back to my bakery in silence. We were both still reeling from the events of the past couple of hours.
“Let’s stop at the bakery and game plan,” I said. “We have to come up with a way to raise money.”
“Okay,” said Tammy. “Let’s grab some lunch and I’ll let my employees know that I will be out of the building for the day.”
We grabbed some burgers at a drive thru and went back to my office at the bakery.
“So, what should we do?” I asked, folding my hands in a tent in front of me. “What can we do to come up with the rest of the money?”
“Well, there are a couple of ideas that I’ve been thinking about,” said Tammy. “One is a car wash. Those always do well for fundraisers.”
“Yeah, but I doubt that a car wash is going to raise the amount of money that we need in the time frame that we need it in.”
The room fell silent as we both wracked our brains to come up with another idea.
“What about a giant bake sale?” I said. “It makes sense, with both of us being bakers.”
“Do you know how many cakes we would have to move in two weeks to make that kind of money?” asked Tammy, her eyes bulging out of her head. “We have got to come up with a better plan than that.”
Part of me felt insulted that Tammy had rejected my idea, but a large part of me knew that she was right.
“What about hosting an auction?” asked Tammy. “I earned a ton of money by hosting the last auction. And we could even use this as a venue to sell our baked goods and earn even more money, turning this into a mega event and making a good name for ourselves.”
I thought about the idea for a minute. I didn’t like the idea of having an auction without Elliot. He had already been a huge part of the last two auctions that I had attended. I wasn’t sure if having an auction without him would turn out as well as the last ones had.
But, I had to admit that her idea was the best one that we had come up with so far. I didn’t really see any other viable alternative. And besides, we were just hosting, right? I didn’t have to auction myself off again.
I didn’t think I could bring myself to even if I wanted to. The idea of another man’s hands on me made my skin crawl.
“Okay, I’ll do it,” I said. Tammy clapped excitedly.
I only hoped that I wouldn’t live to regret it.
Chapter Sixteen Elliot
I stared at my computer screen in awe. I couldn’t believe the email that I was looking at.
It advertised an auction that was going to be held at Candy’s bakery.
I immediately got angry. She didn’t have time for me, but she had time to host an auction? What a slap in the face. Clearly she’d gotten what she wanted from me and was ready to move on to someone else.
I was determined to go just so that I could see the look on Candy’s face when I bid on another girl. I would do it just to spite her, not because I was interested in anyone else. My feelings were still hurt that she decided to just cut me out of her life.
I had spent the past week partying every night, trying to get myself out of the depressed funk that I’d been in. But, it wasn’t making me feel any better. In fact, it was probably making me feel worse because I just couldn’t stop thinking about Candy.
And that part made me even more angry. Here she was rubbing salt into still-bleeding wounds, but I couldn’t help but miss her, want to see her, to talk to her, to hold her in my arms, and kiss her. I had been dreaming about her almost every night once I finally drifted off to sleep.
I sat, thinking about my last dream. She had come over and told me that she took everything back, and wanted to be with me. She started taking her clothes off right in my driveway, telling me that she didn’t care who saw, but that she wanted me. My dick stiffened in my pants as I thought about her perky nipples standing at full attention and her round, supple ass sashaying back and forth in my driveway.
But even though the thoughts made my cock stir to life in my pants, they weren’t the thoughts haunting me day in and day out. I missed everything about her, not just her body and the fun we’d had under the covers.
I missed her smile, her laugh, I missed the sound of her voice. I missed every single facet of that stunning woman.
I laid back on my bed, overcome with thoughts of Candy. I wished that I could make my dream a reality.
