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    One More Helping
    One More Helping
    One More Helping
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    One More Helping

    By Nickie Jamison

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    Pizza has been part of Dante’s world since his childhood. He lives and works at the Italian restaurant founded by his Grandparents, Pizza 3.14.

    Things in the kitchen heat up when Dane’s father hires Isaiah “Izz” Byrne, a new busser with a shady past who just happens to make pretty good pancakes. Izz is determined to not let his past ruin his future with Dante, but when old “friends” show up, it’s Dante to the rescue.

    Will that be enough to keep danger at bay? Or will Dante and Izz lose more than they bargained for?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateOct 7, 2017
    ISBN9781634864824
    One More Helping
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    Nickie Jamison

    Nicole “Nickie” Jamison wrote her first full-length novel at age ten—that creative endeavor sparked the desire to begin her writing career. Her stories dabble in and blend many different genres; science fiction, fantasy, romance, contemporary, poetry, horror, and whatever else captures her interest. For more information, visit oopswrongcookie.com.

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      One More Helping - Nickie Jamison

      One More Helping

      By Nickie Jamison

      Published by JMS Books LLC

      Visit jms-books.com for more information.

      Copyright 2017 Nickie Jamison

      ISBN 9781634864824

      Cover Design: Written Ink Designs | written-ink.com

      Image(s) used under a Standard Royalty-Free License.

      All rights reserved.

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      This book is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It may contain sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which might be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where they cannot be accessed by minors.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in the United States of America.

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      One More Helping

      By Nickie Jamison

      The dough stuck to Dante’s fingers, so he added more flour, kneading and shaping the last bit into a boule before transferring it to the empty metal mixing bowl on the counter in front of him. He clapped flour from his hands and wiped his fingers on a clean towel. Pizza 3.14 was a family business, one Papi DeLuca started in 1963. The old man baked pizza pies in the brick oven in his backyard and used Nona DeLuca’s secret sauce recipe, fresh homemade mozzarella, and the vegetables that grew in terracotta pots on the screened in back porch at their old house.

      Dante covered the boule of dough with a cloth napkin and smiled to himself. He’d been making dough for the pizzas almost every day since he was six-years-old. What had started as punishment for eating half of the Roma tomatoes from Nona’s little terracotta garden had turned Dante into the best pizza chef in the entire state. He and Pizza 3.14 had been featured on an early episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives on Food Network and there was an entire wall devoted to celebrities that had eaten at the family-owned-and-operated-hole-in-the-wall Italian joint run by the DeLucas. Dante’s favorite photos were the one of Papi sharing a pie with Frank and Nancy Sinatra and the picture of Dante and Guy Fieri hand-tossing pizza crusts. Then there was the large trophy case that Uncle Vito had built beside the bar so the first thing customers would see when they came in was the awards the restaurant had won for the past fifty years, framed newspaper articles, and food critic reviews.

      The restaurant was where Dante’s heart lived, literally and figuratively. After high school, Dante and his cousin Juno—short for Vito, Junior—had spent the summer and part of fall renovating the two floors above the restaurant and turning them into apartments. The two had grown up together, more like brothers than cousins, and definitely best friends. Dante still lived on the top floor of the building, but Juno got his girlfriend knocked-up, so he joined the navy and was stationed in Pensacola, Florida. Juno had never married the girlfriend, but he wanted to make it on his own like somehow working for the family wasn’t good enough. At least Juno still called on occasion. With no one to occupy the second floor of the building, Dante’s Pop used it as offices and storage.

      Morning, kiddo. Dante’s Pop, Lorenzo, tapped on the Plexiglas shield that separated the kitchen from the dining room. Part of the restaurant’s appeal was that the pizza station and the brick oven were

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