I stood and grabbed my purse. "I am, but I can take a break for lunch."
Reina grinned. "I was hoping that was the case."
I turned off the lights and closed the door. "I don't see you as much now that the bakery is reopened."
"I keep adding more things to the schedule. And it's keeping me busy."
"I've been wanting to catch up." We recently became friends when Morgan was renovating her bakery after it was damaged in a fire.
"Morgan is keeping me busy too," Reina said with a naughty smirk.
I covered my ears. "I don't want to hear about my brother."
She laughed. "Noted."
I lowered my hands. "It's enough to know you're happy."
She smiled. "I am."
"I'm just glad the women outnumber the men at Sterling family events now. What do you feel like?"
"Pizza." Reina shifted her purse higher on her shoulder.
I pushed opened the door. "I can do pizza."
Reina stepped onto the sidewalk into the cold air. "This was exactly what I needed. Some girl time."
"If you'd ever come out of that bakery—" I teased as the wind blew my hair in my face.
She smacked me on the arm. "You should talk. You have, like, four jobs. You're never available to go out."
I sighed. "It's only going to get worse now that this job is essentially full-time."
"What are you going to do about the rest of your jobs?"
"Natasha hired someone else to man the front counter now that I'm working for Eve. I can pick up assistant jobs whenever I need to at the Wilde Ski Resort. And I was only working on Sundays at Belle's Bookshop. She hired a high-school girl to help out."
"I don't know how you do it all."
"I like to stay busy." When I paused, that's when I had too many questions about what I was doing with my life. And I wasn't sure if it was my parents' opinion or mine that was bothering me.
"Busy is good. But sometimes I wonder if I should be slowing down. It seems like things have only gotten busier since the bakery reopened."
"That's a good thing. Your business is successful." I opened the door to the pizzeria, and we walked in. The lights were dim. The sign indicated we should find our own table, so we slid into a booth by the front window.
Reina took off her jacket. "Sausage?"
"Definitely."
When the waitress stopped by, we ordered two iced teas and a large pizza with sausage.
Reina placed her arms on the table. "Tell me how it's going, working with Cooper."
I shrugged. "Not bad actually."
She raised a brow. "You two can't be in the same room without taking jabs at each other."
I let out a breath, wondering how much I should tell her. I was never telling anyone about my little crush on him. Especially not him. "We talked about the situation and decided we needed to be mature about it."