Laura had spent years trying not to let her husband’s dismissive comments about her bakery get under her skin. But after he humiliated her in front of his family, someone unexpected walked through her door the very next morning – and suddenly, Hudson’s words felt a lot less harmless.
Hudson called my bakery a hobby while I was sitting three feet away from him.
We were at his mother’s birthday dinner, squeezed around a long table with his parents, his brother, and two other relatives when his brother asked how business was going.
Before I could answer, Hudson laughed.
“Still keeping her busy.”
I turned toward him.
“Keeping me busy?”
He lifted one shoulder. “It’s a hobby, Laura. A successful hobby, but let’s not pretend you’re running a corporation.”
A couple of people laughed.
I didn’t.
Three years earlier, I had opened the bakery after nearly a decade of baking from our kitchen.
It wasn’t huge.
Six tables, one display case, and a kitchen that became crowded if two people turned around at the same time.
But it paid its bills.
It paid me.
And I had built every part of it myself.
Hudson knew that.
Still, he smiled like he’d made an innocent joke.
His brother shrugged. “If people are buying, that’s business.”
“Sure,” Hudson replied. “Small business.”
He said the words as if they belonged in quotation marks.
Then he leaned back and added, “Anyway, she’ll thank me next year when I finally get her some actual cash flow.”
I looked at him.
“What does that mean?”
“Nothing you need to worry about yet.”
“Hudson.”
He smiled. “Just trust me.”
That irritated me more than the hobby comment.
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