His Unveiled Passion

Chapter 56

Inside the apartment, Stephen was wearing an apron and cooking dinner for Tessa. Leaning against the kitchen doorframe with her arms crossed, she watched him with an amused expression.

"Who would've thought someone like you could cook?" she teased.

Stephen calmly rinsed the vegetables. "Didn't you ask me last time where I got the food I brought you?" Turning slightly, he gave her a faint smile. "I made it myself."

Tessa couldn't hide her surprise. "You cooked it yourself? Why did it taste exactly like the dishes my mom used to make?"

Stephen smiled. "I learned it from your mom during the few meals I had at your place."

She raised an eyebrow, skeptical. "Impossible. You only came over a few times back then."

The first time they met, she had just turned ten. Her mother passed away shortly after her 12th birthday.

In the two years between those events, Stephen had visited her house fewer than five times. How could he have possibly learned her mom's cooking skills?

"I don't believe you," she said, giving him a suspicious look.

I said I'd take you somewhere? We couldn't go that day because you were injured. Let's go

have to do

"It's related."

"Alright then."

soup-beef and celery skillet, tomato

with Stephen cooking and the dishes perfectly matching her taste, she surprisingly finished a whole serving. The two of them even

but Stephen stopped her. "You sit down. I'll

she teased, "Wow, Stephen, you're so handy in the

and flicked her forehead lightly. "I'll marry

tidying up the kitchen, Stephen, ever mindful of

against the doorframe,

stay. Was it because she wasn't

thought made her glance down at herself. Well,

expression and smiled. "What are you looking at? Why do you

nothing. Be safe on the way back."

carrying

help but smile. The man was so

It was as if he didn't have a single improper

...

the police station, Zachary was being questioned. He was set to be detained, but his assistant arrived just in time to post bail