Garret had lost all appetite for sweet things. He couldn't trust himself to put a piece of cake in his mouth and not have it come out the wrong way up in his current condition. Somehow or other, he found himself shackled to Daphne Hopton.

The words running through his mind right now were WHAT THE HELL?!

And then she started offering him cake, and Sienna cake in that sweet, house-wifey voice. He resisted the urge to slap his hand on his forehead at her behaviour. She was already playing the role of attentive wife, and he was still only trying to get over the fact that he was now her boyfriend.

"No, thank you." He picked up one of the extra pieces of strawberries and held it up with a pained expression, "I'm set."