Avery felt relieved. "How's business lately?""Ever since we launched the new cakes after New Year's, our sales have been going up! We have a lot of repeat customers, so we are making profits," Shelly said. "Aunty Avery, thank you. If it weren't for you, our business wouldn't run so smoothly.""Don't thank me. I can't rest until I see you living a great life yourself," Avery said. "By the way, Shelly, I wanted to ask how many cakes you can make each day. My daughter's company would like to order cakes for its employees once a week, but I don't know if you can supply that many cakes."Shelly was thrilled. "We sell approximately a thousand cakes each day, and since that's way past our usual daily sales, we intend to hire a few more employees.""Haha! That's great! Layla's company will need about five hundred cakes, and you can have those delivered to her every Friday. Will that be okay?" Avery was worried that Shelly might not accept it and said, "The cakes distributed to employees a
Hayden could not help but admire how wild Avery's imagination was. In the end, he caved and said, "Alright, Mom. I will deliver the contract tomorrow morning.""Good! It's just a contract, so why are you overreacting? I only asked you to do it because your company is located near her cafe," Avery teased. "When I saw the address of the office, I suspected that you chose that location just so you can be close to her.""... Mom, it's just a coincidence! That's it! Besides, I didn't decide on the address, my team did. You can ask my employees if you don't believe me.""No, thank you." Avery turned around with a grin and played with Aiden. "Hayden, do you want to come and see your son? Shelly said that he is looking more handsome."Hayden walked over to glance at Aiden. "What else did she say?" Hayden wanted to say that he was starving but changed his mind at the last second. He wanted to talk about Shelly to show Avery that he was not avoiding Shelly. "She said that she wants to wo
Satisfied, Avery said, "Be nicer to Shelly.""I'm nice to her all the time, Mom," Hayden said. "I know that you want us to date, but you can't force this sort of thing.""I'm not forcing anything. I'm just asking that you treat her better. No matter what, she is Aiden's mom!" Avery reasoned with him. "She comes from poverty, so we should help her where we can."Hayden nodded and agreed, "Which is why I think you are doing great whenever you offer to help her. With you to look after her, I have nothing to worry about."Avery fell silent."I'm done, Mom." Hayden finished his milk and prepared to head out for work."Are you eating properly for lunch? I can always get the driver to deliver lunch to you." Avery was worried that he was not eating properly. Home-cooked meals would always be more nutritious than food outside."It's fine, Mom. I might not be in the office in the afternoon." Hayden wiped his lips with a tissue and headed out.In Courtney’s Cafe, Shelly received a text fr
After all, compromises were required for the bettering of the business.Shelly tensed for a few moments when she saw Hayden and forced a smile. "Hello, Mr. Tate. Aunty Avery told me that you are here to deliver the contract to me."Hayden took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed the one-paged contract to Shelly.Shelly accepted it and noticed that Hayden had already signed it, so she only needed to add her signature."I will grab a pen from my office. Please wait," she said before heading back to her office.Hayden was curious to see what her office looked like, so he followed her.From his perspective, the cafe was extremely small, and he was amazed that there was an office in such a small area.He followed Shelly curiously to her office and to his surprise, Courtney was there as well.When the staff called out for Shelly, Courtney wanted to go outside as well, but she had not put on makeup that morning when she went to work, so she hesitated, not expecting Hayden
Shelly immediately locked her phone and smiled at Courtney. "I don't have Mr. Tate's number, so you should use your phone! You just bought it right? The camera is better than mine.""You can take my number down now, then!" Hayden said before unlocking his own phone to give her his number.Shelly could not believe what she was hearing and stared at the screen."Shelly, hurry up! I'll take his number if you don't!" Courtney urged.Shelly hummed and hurried over to her desk. "I'm a little thirsty. Let me take a sip of water first."She fumbled for a glass as she unlocked her phone to navigate to the contact list. Thankfully, she only had the photo of the twins on her locked screen and not anywhere else.She took a sip of water and returned to take Hayden's number down."Mr. Tate, can I have your number as well? Don't worry. I won't bother you. I just want your number in my contact list so I will be more inspired to work hard when I look at your number!" said Courtney.Moved by her
[Have any of you been to this cafe? How do the cakes taste?][The cafe recently opened! I haven't bought anything from it before, but I plan to go there this afternoon! It's close to our office!][Let's go together and check out the cafe where our boss went to!][Me, too! Count me in!]...That afternoon, Courtney’s Cafe welcomed a group of employees from Dream Maker.Dream Maker did not have any uniforms that its employees had to wear, but they were all required to wear tags. When the staff members were starting to get overwhelmed, Shelly went outside to help, and when she spotted the tags worn by her customers, she asked in confusion, "Are you all from Dream Maker?""Yeah! Our boss bought desserts from your cafe today. Did you recognize him? His name is Hayden Tate! We are all here because he came!" one of the female employees chirped.Shelly was at a loss for words. She was astounded by how Hayden had managed to advertise her cafe without having to do much. "Your boss di
Shelly accepted the ticket and noticed that it was a concert hosted by an extremely famous musician from overseas; Shelly frequently played his music at her cafe. "These tickets are really hard to come by. I tried booking them online but couldn't get my hands on them." Shelly wanted to take the ticket but felt slightly embarrassed to do o."It's not that hard! My friends can get me tickets to anything," Layla said casually.Reassured, Shelly accepted the ticket happily. "Thank you, Layla! I will accept this, then! I really like this musician."Layla poured her a cup of tea and said, "Shelly, do you like talented, artistic men like him?"Shelly sipped her tea and blushed. "His music has soul, and every time I listen to it, I forget about all my troubles. A lot of people love him.""Yeah, I know. What I meant was if this is the type of man you like," Layla explained.Hayden had no talent for art and knew nothing apart from technology, so Layla knew that an unromantic man like him
"And sell him our cakes?" Shelly asked."Of course, not! If it's a single man, you can entice him with your charm and see if you stand a chance of landing a date!" the staff member said. "Don't you want to marry someone rich? Tomorrow is the perfect chance for that."Shelly flushed. "You've probably read too many romance novels. It's just a concert, and you manage to make so much out of it.""Ms. Taylor, you don't go out much. I know plenty of girls who ran into handsome guys on the street and went up to them to ask for their numbers. Some got a date and some even have kids by now," the staff member said.Shelly listened with interest and said, "Alright. Keep your imagination at bay. I only have one goal right now, and that is to focus on the cafe so that we can make enough profit to afford a bigger place. Of course, you all need a raise as well."The staff member's eyes lit up. "Are we getting a raise, Ms. Taylor?"She nodded. "Yes, you are getting one this month.""You are awe