An Officer And His Gentleman by Ryan Field

Author:Ryan Field [Field, Ryan]
Language: nld
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

When Chance awoke and looked into the mirror early the next morning, he found a dark purple love bite on the right side of his neck—long and thin, shaped like the state of Florida. He frowned and reached for a box of Band-Aids under the bathroom sink to cover it up. The old man would go crazy if he saw it, and Chance couldn't lie about a love bite—he couldn't say it was a bug bite or a bruise. Brody's teeth marks were still there. His legs were sore and he had trouble walking, too. They felt tight and stiff when he leaned over for the Band-Aids. And when he looked into the cracked, full-length mirror behind the bathroom door, there were a few dark bruises on the backs of his legs: serious black-and-blue marks from the pounding he'd taken in Brody's back seat the night before. But more than that, there were two large red handprints on both sides of his ass. He arched his back a little and smiled; it was as if he could still feel Brody's erection in his body.

He got dressed and went down the back staircase slowly, then out the back door and into the barn. Before he did anything else that morning, he wanted to see if there were any squirrels in the traps. And sure enough, there were four brand-new squirrels trapped in cages and barely moving because they were so frightened. He shook his head when he saw the poor things trapped like that, but he smiled when he took each cage out back, opened the trap doors and set them free again. He didn't want to spray their tails that morning; it 111

An Officer And His Gentleman

by Ryan Field

would have made Dan suspicious. He had to wait a few days so Dan would think the squirrels he'd driven to upstate New York had actually traveled back on their own accord.

When the empty traps were back in the barn and reset, Chance went into the kitchen to prepare his special for the day. Because he wanted some free time to make a few notes for the recipe competition, he decided to do one of his classic specials, a simple mac-and-cheese that everyone loved. Betty Shack had pleaded with him to share his secret ingredient more than once: "There's something in there that's different, but I can't put my finger on it. Please tell me." Chance only smiled and told her he'd die with his secret. She never would have guessed that what made his mac-and-cheese stand out from all the others was plain yellow mustard and ground nutmeg—pre-ground, right from the can. No need to grate it with a pretentious tool.

The most important ingredient, the one Chance included in all his recipes, was love: the love of food and the ability to love the food enough to know how to choose the perfect combination of ingredients that made a recipe stand out. Ah, he'd seen too many cooks try to follow a recipe that never turned out very well.

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