Chapter 0139

Linda took the eggs off the stove too soon. I wondered if they had fully solidified. When she cracked

them on a bowl, however, the whites of the eggs, at least, seemed whole. Yet when she cut them in half,

to remove the yokes, the yellow yoke was slimy,

She didn’t seem to mind and poured them into a bowl anyway. A bold choice.

Nathan leaned closer, peering into the bowl. “Does that look right?”

Linda nodded. “I cook the eggs shorter than necessary so the yellow bit comes out better. It makes it

easier to mix too.”

To me, Julian said, “I wonder who they are going to get to taste test this, because not it.”

I really hoped it wasn’t me, either.

Nathan leaned back. His face crumpled like he wanted to correct her, but ultimately, he decided to stay

neutral.

Linda then mixed the other ingredients in with the eggs and began to stir. She lifted an egg half to add

the egg slipped down onto the ground.

Linda said, laughing

down, picked up the egg,

in the room went very

continued adding the mixture to that egg, like

see any problem with

plate?”

“Accidents happen. I’m sure the floor is

time in the kitchens at home?”

furrowed. “Sometimes,” she said, but her eyes

of the room. “That’s enough. I believe this experiment has

case.

from the wall and stormed out of the room. I stepped back just in time to narrowly avoid being shouldered

Jullan said.

understand,” Linda said. “What did I do

to Nathan, “If we do another cooking

horrible oversight on my part. I beg forgiveness, Your

Nicholas nodded.

me what is going on,” Linda said, voice rising in panic or anger or

but you even dropped one on the ground, then returned it to the table. Admit it, you’ve never even been into a kitchen before in

been in one!” she announced loudly.

bait and proven that, though she’d been in a kitchen, she had not been in one to cook. Very likely, she had

with pitiful eyes, except those few who were

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