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of.
    Almost...
    Tessa swallowed hard before responding. "Yeah, I heard too."
    "Oh, so that's how you're gonna do me, heifer?" Dana said, dropping the cupcake back into the box and pinning a glare on Tessa.
    "What are you talking about?"
    "I'm talking about you leaving out the fact that Isaiah Noble was in the bakery before opening hours trying to get all up in your goodies."
    "Dana!" Tessa yelled. "He was not trying to get all up in my goodies." Though, if the looks he'd given her during their entire encounter were any indication...
    "That ain't what Mama said," Dana mumbled.
    Tessa gasped. "She saw?!"
    "Mmhmm," Dana said, picking the cupcake up again to take another bite. "Said y'all were flirting with each other so hard, you didn't even notice her peeking from the back."
    "Oh my gosh," Tessa said, letting her face fall into her hands. It was true. She’d been completely caught up with Isaiah during his visit.
    "So now that you've been ousted," Dana said, with a smile in her voice. "Are you going to quit being a stingy heifer and give me all the juicy details? Don't forget, you have to cater to your sick baby sister."
    Tessa lifted her head. "Oh, I think Aiden catered to you plenty before I arrived."
    "Shut up. And quit trying to deflect. Now..." Dana said with a wiggle of her eyebrows, "...Does Isaiah look as good all grown up in person as he does on TV."
    Tessa's lips slowly tilted into a naughty grin.
    "Even better."
     

Chapter 5
     
    I saiah blew out a deep breath as he rode the elevator up to the executive suites of Noble Naturals' headquarters. Returning here, surprisingly, didn't feel like the noose he'd expected it to feel like. He walked down the corridor with purpose, not with the feeling of shackles on his feet. One of the reasons Isaiah and his siblings decided on going their separate ways when they'd turned eighteen was because they'd wanted to find their own identities as individuals. None of them wanted to forever be labeled as 'one of those quad siblings'. Another reason they'd decided to leave was as a sort of uprising...a mutiny against their father and his desire for them to take over the company.
    None of them actually had a problem with working for Noble Naturals. They all loved the business. Their issue was that they wanted to join the company when they were ready, not when Isaac deemed them ready. And they all knew he would have wanted them working in the company as soon as he could get them there.
    But they all had their own passions they wanted to explore, interests they wanted to pursue.
    They'd never had a stronger united front than when they'd stood together, side by side, to let their father know that they weren't ready to work for the family business. Isaac was livid, but Irene...Isaiah couldn't remember a time when he'd ever seen his mother look at them with such pride. Not in pictures of them right after she'd given birth and they'd all been carefully placed around her on the hospital bed. Not when their IQ test results came back and were off the charts. And not when they excelled in music, so much so, that they got the opportunity to travel the country to shows off their musical talents at a young age.
    No.
    Irene's pride soared when her children stepped up to their father and told them the way they wanted to handle their lives.
    And while, to this day, Isaac didn't necessarily approve of their choices, he accepted them.
    Isaiah arrived at the reception desk outside of his father's office. When the receptionist looked up, her face lit up with a grin. Her eyes squinted, and she pointed the pen she was holding in her hand at Isaiah.
    "Yoooooou're...Ian?"
    Isaiah chuckled. "Close. But no."
    "Ah!" she said, her grin stretching into a full blown smile. "Thought I had it all figured out."
    Tessa knew exactly who you were .
    The thought of Tessa sent a shiver down his spine. The fact that she automatically knew who he was...was kinda hot. He hadn't stopped thinking about her all morning. It didn't