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While managing customers and closing tasks, she navigates uncomfortable workplace dynamics tied to her roommate and a charismatic coworker, Caelyx Vane, whose flirtation irritates her but reshapes social attention around the store. The narrative sets a tense, comedic-romantic tone while hinting at adult themes and personal history.","Contents  \nCopyright  \nAspen  \nCaelyx  \nAspen  \nCaelyx  \nAspen  \nCaelyx  \nAspen  \nCaelyx  \nAspen  \nAspen  \nCaelyx  \nAspen  \nCaelyx  \nAspen  \nCaelyx  \nAspen  \nCaelyx  \nAspen  \nCaelyx  \nAspen  \nCaelyx  \nThank You  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2026 by L.A. Lambert.  \nAll rights reserved.  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.  \nThe story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.  \nPlease note this book contains sexually explicit content and is intended for a mature audience.  \nContent warnings include discussions of a parent suffering from alcohol addiction, brief references to underage drinking.  \nCover photo taken by CJC Photography; Model Alex Sarkady  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nASPEN  \n“FEELING ALL HOT and bothered, Cupcake?”  \nClosing my eyes and inhaling deeply, I willed patience to materialize inside my body. Setting down the tourist brochure I’d been fanning myself with, I gave my coworker a wry look as he passed by me with a steaming latte for a customer. The heat was on, and it was warm behind the counter.  \n“Just bothered,” I assured him flatly.  \nI’d always found the atmosphere in Common Grounds, the popular little café nestled just a few blocks down from Byron Bay University’s campus, to be enduringly relaxing. I’d logged a lot of hours as their employee, having spent a large chunk of my freshman year there. Now I was a sophomore, still making fancy coffee drinks and ringing up orders of pastries and cake pops. There was something just kind of inherently soothing about the lo-fi music always wafting through the speakers and the toasty aroma, even when we were slammed and the line up to the counter was close to being out the door.  \nThe owners of the café, a married couple who’d immigrated from Greece a couple decades earlier, wanted to keep the place cozy and welcoming. The dining area, separate from the entrance area with the checkout counter, was filled with armchairs and low tables surrounded by puffy cushions. It was basically always full of people from the university, studying or playing tabletop games. It was a great place to bring a date to, if you just wanted to talk and not spend much money.  \nIt was the kind of place I couldn’t hate, even when I would get a moron customer trying to order a hot caramel frappe when they really wanted a caramel macchiato, or they’d try to order off some imaginary secret menu they found online that had nothing to do with our store.  \nThat was how I’d felt until my roommate, who I was unfortunately pretty fond of, begged me to put in a good word with my boss to get this other guy we both knew, Caelyx Vane, hired on there too. Ren, the traitorous roommate in question, only cared about it because his boyfriend  \nMaddox was Caelyx’s housemate. And when Maddox wanted something, Caelyx getting a job in this case, Ren was all in for whatever that cause might be.  \nSo that was how I’d ended up with the most annoying person I knew as my coworker. Ren had probably been rewarded for his efforts with an enthusiastic blowjob or ten, but what had I gotten in return for my good deeds? The whole situation was a pain in the ass .  \nHe’d never worked a day in his life before this, so I’d half expected him to somehow screw it up and get fired in his first week. But because I’d been the one to recommend him, I couldn’t blow off his training or I’d look like an idiot. And now, a month and a half later, my boss loved him because all the giggling, blushing girls and even sometimes giggling, blushing guys, showed up in droves to see him. 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