“Let’s keep this civil. We should treat each other with respect.”
When Cherry Sanders gets unceremoniously dumped by Craig, those are his parting words. And she tries, really she does. But when Craig accidentally lets slip how he really feels, Cherry and Olivia, her boss at the Red Velvet bakery, decide a little revenge is the only option.
Enter copious amounts of frosting, one shiny BMW, and Lachlan, a handsome astro…astro… Does it really matter after what they do? Just pass the damn wine…
Excerpt – Crexit…
Day forty-six of my new life. A gloriously sunny Friday. I had a cute-ish new flat, a new friend, and a new job with as many free cakes as I could eat. I should have been relishing my freedom, spending the evenings of my twenty-fifth year celebrating a narrow escape while drinking dubiously named cocktails.
So, why couldn’t I forget the old Cherry Sanders?
Days one through five post-Craig, or “Crexit,” as I’d taken to calling it, had been spent awkwardly avoiding my ex while I packed up my belongings from our shared house. By day six, having been forced to endure his side of yet another phone call with his new girlfriend, I was ready to snap. A puppy! They were getting a puppy together, and they’d only been shagging for two months.
Craig and I had been together since I was twenty-one, engaged for over a year, and when I suggested upgrading the microwave, he’d vetoed that because it was a “big step.”
Day seven after Crexit found me living in a bed and breakfast with three suitcases, a family-sized box of Quality Street, and a migraine, and I’d been trying to put my life back together ever since.
“Still thinking about your ex?” Olivia, my boss, asked.
“How did you know?”
“Because you’ve just iced the word ‘asshole’ onto that cupcake.”
I had? Dammit, I had.
“I’m so, so sorry. I didn’t even realise.”
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