Chapter 737

Jared ambled over, and he and Agnes began to eat.

Agnes had prepared a sumptuous meal, including medium rare steak, pot roast, Caesar salad, and a bowl of clam chowder.

It took Agnes a long time to prepare the food.

Over the years in Manhattan, she had been so busy with work, she barely had time to cook.

She usually just had a sandwich.

And Nocturne, who had a long slumber schedule and difficulty digesting complex foods, usually ate simpler food. Fortunately, Nocturne never got sick of the simple diet.

Jared had already started to dig in.

Agnes was inexplicably nervous, “How is it? Do you like it?”

Jared tried a bit of everything, then said candidly, “The steak is a bit overcooked, I’ll deduct ten points. The pot roast is leaning on the saltier side, another ten off. The vegetables could be fresher so that’s twenty off. And it tastes like you forgot the salt in the clam chowder. That’s another ten off.”

were to grade it, it would have failed. Agnes felt a wave of despondency,

palate, coupled with his chef–level cooking

she ever compare?

fork, saying,

down at his plate. “It’s prepared by my wife, so it deserves an extra hundred points.”

said it was

Watching Jared

continued their lunch together.

had a small appetite and was done eating after

chin on her arm and watched Jared eat.

his eating could be appreciated as an

elegance and composure, making the ordinary dishes seem precious.

“Am I that

feast for the

down his utensils seriously, “Agnes, are you flirting

the teasing lilt in Jared’s voice, nerves fluttered within

for Jared and handed it over, “Eat this before it gets

let it

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