Chapter 103
Abby
My office is silent as I scroll through the new emails that have landed in my inbox. My fingers drum on
the desk, anticipating the one email that I’ve been waiting for the most—the details of the upcoming
cooking competition.
And then, there it is, bolded and marked with high importance: Cook-Off Competition Details.
Taking a deep breath, I click on it.
The email is concise but packed with information. Attached to it is a long list, detailing every possible
dish that might come up during the competition.
My heart rate quickens as I scan the list. Some dishes I recognize, ones I’ve made a thousand times
over in my career, but others are unfamiliar, exotic even, presenting challenges I’ve never faced before.
I won’t know which three dishes I’ll be asked to prepare on the spot. Which means only one thing: I
have to practice all of them. Every single one.
Grabbing a notepad, I jot down a list of ingredients I’ll need for the more exotic dishes, then turn my
attention to the restaurant’s supplier portal, adding item after item to the shopping list. The ingredients
range from the ordinary to the obscure. Each addition of expensive truffles, caviar, and fresh scallops
makes my anxiety spi ke.
How can I perfect so many dishes in such a short time?
Once the orders are placed, I stretch and push back from the desk, glancing at the clock on the wall.
It’s getting late, but there’s no time to waste. Without a second thought, I pull my hair into a messy bun
and prepare to head to the kitchen to get started.
Before I can leave, however, a sudden page over the intercom draws me from my task.
“Abby, can you come up front for a moment? I need help with the register.” It’s Chloe, her voice
strained.
with a sigh, I head to the bar
she fiddles with the register. “Hey, what’s going on?” I ask, striding up to
mutters, her fingers hovering over the register keys.
evening.”
step beside her and start navigating through the system.
responding as it should. Chloe releases a breath she’s
been holding.
have to do
giving her a reassuring smile. “Anything else I can
She hesitates,
about the other night… I shouldn’t have snapped at you. Especially
crossing my
insists, her eyes earnest. “I’m your best friend, Abby, and I’m
to see you get hurt again, fall into
buried deep down, but I push them away, offering her a
remember? Learned my lesson the hard way. It’s not
to happen again.”
it’s just… you deserve so
him hurting you again.”
her hand. “I appreciate your concern, Chloe, but
I don’t need
gaze for a beat, a mix of emotions swirling in her
reluctant nod. “I understand.”
my
Chloe’s words reverberate in my head. A part of me
but another part is frustrated. This entire situation, I realize,
between concern and independence, friendship and
Chloe. Our bond means more to me than she
time, I want—no, need—her to trust
Karl’s charms all those years
self-worth and got my heart broken. I’ve grown, learned, and changed. Why
feel as though all of my friends just
that’s bad for
chair, though,
taste of his lips. Our intimacy in the kitchen, which
spoken about.
delicious mistake. And it can’t happen
…
kitchen has long since fallen quiet, with the last employees heading home for the
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