He kissed her, right there, in front of everyone, making her blush from head to toe.

She couldn’t tell if anyone really noticed except for Vivienne, who was in their face, taking photos.

“Vivienne, what are you doing?” Tessa asked, breaking away from Leo’s lips.

“Capturing how cute you two are.”

“Wait a minute.” Tessa pulled out her phone and called up her channel. “I have five thousand subscribers! I have ads on my channel!” She looked up incredulously. “Do you know what that means, when you have ads?

“Yep,” Vivienne said. “It’s so exciting. People want to see the nice young couple who are trying to save a restaurant and a bakery.”

Tessa handed the phone to Leo. “Look.”

“Well, I’ll be,” he said, passing it around to his aunt and uncle and dad. “Tessa, you’ve brought a hundred people here.”

Tessa nodded to her sister. “Vivienne did.”

“The power of social media,” Aunt Loretta said.

“It was more than that,” Vivienne said. “Tessa, you’re great at communicating and being friendly and funny. I just provided some emotional content to bring them here.”

By taking videos of her when she wasn’t looking and sharing God only knew what, but hey, it worked, right?

“Well, what are we going to do about it?” Marco asked. “They’re here to see the cute couple, so go give them the cute couple.”

“I have an idea,” Leo said.

Of course he did.

“Instead of turning people away empty-handed,” Leo said, “let’s all go out there and give them a taste of the restaurant.”

“The health department doesn’t allow us to serve people on the sidewalk,” Uncle Cosmo said.

“How about vouchers for a free appetizer?” Leo asked. “I can hand them signed business cards for that. And then…we can hand them something delicious.”

“Bruschetta,” Loretta said. “We can make up as many carry-out containers as we can.”

“Okay, everybody,” Leo said, giving Tessa a wink. “All hands on deck.”

…

“We ran out of business cards and bruschetta sometime after dark,” Leo’s dad said as he set an enormous bowl of frutti del mar on the table at ten thirty that night. Leo poured wine for his dad and Tessa’s family as they sat and ate and talked over the bizarre evening.

“Yes, but we met tons of people,” Tessa said.

Tessa’s mother held out her glass. “You two charmed the crowd.”

“And the food was excellent,” Leo’s dad said.

Tessa’s grandmother nodded wisely. “Everyone had a great time. They’ll all be back.”

“The bakery stayed open late and made a ton of business,” her mother said. “We had some croissant dough ready to go, so we made a bunch of chocolate croissants. And we sold a ton of coffee, too.”

Leo couldn’t believe the success. It was more than he’d ever thought possible.