Drake ended up baking with Sylvie quite often as she continued experimenting with new recipes prior to setting up her bakery officially. After a few weeks, he reached a point where she trusted him enough to actually measure things out instead of simply hand her ingredients.
She had shown him how to level things so they fit the specifications perfectly, sift, fold, crack an egg one-handed, and much more. She really knew her stuff. It was quite impressive.
His colleagues were all thrilled to be on the receiving end of so many baked goods and Randy continued to give him a hard time because he was still working on the Savannah and Jared problem every few days and it was interfering with his ability to take on more difficult requests.
"Why are you going so far for her?" Randy asked unhappily. "Shouldn't it be done by now?"
"No one who hurts her gets to live well. And that's that," Drake replied with a glare.
"But why's it taking so long?"