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boyfriend?  And you did. You found love. You’ll find that again, I promise.”
     
    It was times like these in which Maggie didn’t have a clue how she got to be the person she was.  With divorced parents, a set of divorced grandparents, and no image of that perfect happy ending in her mind, she chalked it up to how people always want what they don’t have… or is it can’t have?
    “I found love and he broke my heart.  I know what I want and I know that involves finding someone new, but I just can’t get the images of him and what he did out of my mind.”  Maggie said, not knowing whether she wanted to cry or punch something.
     

Chapter Four
     
    Fresh out of pastry school, Maggie was thrilled to open up her own place, and especially when she got her first order.   When Maggie had finished setting the cake up at the reception site, the groom’s brother came in to the ballroom to give the final okay. 
     
    This was Thomas. 
     
    Maggie had said many times that she was lucky he didn’t come in while she was still in the process of setting things up because she was sure she would have dropped something.  She was taken aback by him.  He was Japanese; his heritage and the summer sun giving his skin a warm, deep glow.  He was maybe 5’7” at the tallest, but that worked for her petite frame.  His hair was almost jet black and he wore it in a shaggy style that both complimented and contradicted the tuxedo he was wearing.  There was a moment when not a word was said, but they just looked at each other.  In typical Maggie fashion, when she recounted this story to Taylor, Alexis, and Callie, she was adamant that he was just busy looking at the cake, while her three closest friends kept insisting that it was her that was the sweet treat he wanted.
    After the wedding, it only took one day before her phone was ringing.  Thomas had gotten Maggie’s number from his brother and called asking to set up an appointment for a consultation for a birthday cake for his mother.  The following day when he arrived, Thomas revealed that his mother’s birthday was actually months ago and that he just wanted to see her again.  From that moment on, the two were inseparable.  For almost two years it was “Maggie and Thomas” or “Thomas and Maggie.”  Everyone swore that they were going to be married, but one year ago to the day, that all went out the window. 
     
    While Thomas and Maggie were on different pages career-wise, they complimented each other in all other aspects of their lives.  But when Thomas got a job offer that would make him move to Calgary just as Maggie was finally building up a strong clientele, arguments began.  They thought they could compromise, but both were driven and knew what they wanted.  Trying the long distance thing for a bit, Maggie had finally decided to bite the bullet and give Calgary a try. 
     
    She had decided to surprise Thomas there and spend a few days in the city before coming back to Vancouver and start packing up her life.  When she knocked on his office door, the voice behind it replied “Come on in, Shelly.  I’ll be just a few more minutes, baby.”  When Maggie opened the door, Thomas’ face dropped and that was when it all came crumbling down.  Maggie couldn’t process how much time passed before she heard the woman’s voice behind her.  Thomas still hadn’t spoken a single word. 
     
    Maggie had closed her eyes tight, breathed as deeply as she could before she turned around and came face to face with Shelly.  She was now wishing that she had kept her eyes shut for if she were to close them now, let alone blink, she knew tears would start streaming down her face and she refused to let them see her cry. 
     
    Shelly had a good three inches on Maggie and was missing about ten pounds from her hips too.  The one thing Maggie could see she had on her was about five years.  Thomas was always a numbers guy.  In her head though, in that moment, Shelly was