#thr: thethievesgambit

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"I feel so honoured., baby" She cooed excitedly, clutching onto the envelope tightly. "I'm sure you had somethin' to do with it." Even if he did, it would only make her love him more.

Once she was lifted onto the counter, she put the envelope down her shirt so she could place her arms onto Chase. "Hmm-" She paused to compose her great vision. "Gosh, American buttercream would be so timeless. But I think Italian Meringue, what I use for the bakery, it'd be better. If only because if they have it outside, or somewhere hot, it won't melt on me. God, I'd make it the prettiest gradient of blue and pink. I'd clear appropriate flavours with them first, but I want to make them a set of their own cupcakes to go alongside it. I know Maly likes Mango, and I could make a bunch of those, but I need Jae to confirm his flavour otherwise he'll obviously perish." He was skinny, but not that skinny, he'd live.

"And of course I'll make some cupcakes for you, so you don't get too jealous, hmm?"

He knew that she would react this way. Smiling, he took her chin in one hand and kissed her softly before handing over the envelope. "They know you will or else they wouldn't have trusted you with this."

Then his hands glided down her sides, pulling her so she was sitting on the counter now. Him standing between her legs. "What flavor will you make it? And will you use the buttercream you used for my birthday cake or that really addictive one you use at the bakery?"

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Nikki had spent all week preparing for her exhibition. Collecting her favourite unsold artworks, arranging the layout, the theme she wanted for each room. It was her favourite thing about it all. On each night, she could stand in the middle of the room with a glass of champagne, and observe peoples' reactions to her paintings. All the time she poured into them.

While she spent plenty of time in her corners, she did flitter around the room to connect with other artists, or sellers, or people in the network who were good to get to know. She had been finishing up one of these conversations when someone had bumped into her - "ohp!" She got knocked a step out of place, a hand reaching out to steady herself.

"Oh-" She was ready to respond, turning to face the man who dared knock the starling from her perch. "No worries, love." Nikki shook her head, caramel curls bouncing. "You're a little far from home, no?"

It was one of those nights were Ronan was beginning to regret moving to New York. That he should have listened to his father and just had moved to Dublin instead if he wanted a change of scenery. Or even over to Edinburgh.

But to him Greenwich Village was the place to be. New York was where the art scene was. It was where he needed to be in order to meet other creatives in the art space and hopefully be recognized. He didn't even want to be rich, he just wanted to be remembered. For his time on this spinning rock to have meant something!

For the first couple of weeks it was hard, until he found a part time job doing from secretarial work at a detective agency. It helped him keep afloat while he figured shite out and thankfully freed up his nights to visit galleries and art galas.

Where he had found himself with a yet another vapid art student, for some reason it was just his luck. As she made an excuse to use the restroom, he felt himself untense and turned around to look at another piece, he found himself bumping into someone. "Oh, sorry." True to his roots, he had yet to master saying excuse me instead of sorry. "Sorry for being in your way."

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"No fucking way-" Meeka knew what envelopes meant. They were either invitations to places with delicious food, or presents. Even the idea of what it could be had Meeka climbing over surfaces to get to Chase, and up in his space to sniff the envelopes as if it would tell her its secrets. Feral. "Oh my god, yes. yes! Gib! I need to create the best cake New York City has ever seen!" She gestured to grab at the invitation in his hands wildly. "I'm gonna make it beautiful! And delicious! It will speak the gospel of Heavenly Made!"

"Guess what I have here," Chase smirked waving the envelope in front of his girlfriend. Though he couldn't contain his excitement and decided to just be out with it. "Jae and Maly are having a gender reveal get together and not only are we invited." He held out a separate envelope and placed it on the counter before handing her the initial one he showed her. "They want you to do the cake. Results are in the envelop but they do not know what the baby is yet. Whatya say ? Up for the task? You know you can't let me know either, I'd spoil it. "

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