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What had Eli been thinking, challenging Adeline to a baking competition? He wasn’t worried about losing—he knew he could win. But he didn’t have time for stuff like this. He should be in his trailer, rehearsing his lines. Spontaneously challenging Adeline was exactly the type of thing Benjamin would have done, though.
Too late now.
In order to have a kitchen that was big enough, they’d had to set up the baking challenge at the bed and breakfast. Which would have been fine—last weekend. But now that the crew was starting to arrive, and they of course had heard what was happening the moment they’d checked in, he and Adeline were gaining an audience. The kitchen was big, but not that big. Not big enough to house both the crew and the entire town that seemed to have shown up for the even
