Heat: A Bad Boy Chef Romance by Lila Moore

Author:Lila Moore [Moore, Lila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-08-25T18:30:00+00:00

Beatrix

Moreau screamed my name so loudly I dropped the bowls I was cleaning. They clattered to the floor with a loud bang. Marcel smirked as I got down on my knees to pick them up. I had to resist the urge to hit him in the face with one of the heavy mixing bowls as I stood.

I cleared my throat and walked past him into Moreau’s office. I had a bad feeling, like I was a kid being sent to the principal’s office. I walked into Moreau’s office and held my breath.

“Close the door,” he said.

I shut it behind me. He leaned against his desk with his arms crossed in front of his chest. His muscular forearms drew my attention. They were an unwelcome distraction. I was at work. This was a business. I had to focus.

“Yes, chef?”

I hoped he’d called me into his office on a work-related matter. I didn’t want to talk about last night, especially now that I knew he had a girlfriend.

“I wanted to talk to you about last night,” he said.

Shit. I tried to keep my composure.

“Okay,” I said neutrally. “I shouldn’t have left this morning. I didn’t want to wake you. You had a hard day yesterday and I thought it was best to let you sleep in.”

I wasn’t sure I believed him. Moreau never gave anyone a pass, at least not where his kitchen was concerned. The restaurant was his baby, his wife, his art, his passion; it was his life. Everything came second to the success of his restaurant.

“Okay,” I said again for lack of anything better to say. I didn’t want to pick a fight.

“Okay? That’s it?”

I shrugged noncommittally.

“Look, you’re obviously pissed, so just tell me what’s on your mind,” he said.

The smart course of action would be to bite my tongue, forget about last night and carry on with my life. So naturally, I did the opposite.

“Are you worried about your girlfriend finding out you fucked another girl?”

“My girlfriend? Do you mean Gwen?”

“The blonde woman. She clearly didn’t like the idea of me working in your kitchen. If she knew we spent the night together, she’d be furious.”

“First of all, that woman is not my girlfriend, she’s an investor. Second of all, it’s rare to see a woman working in the kitchen of a restaurant like this. So, you’re right, she probably does assume we’re sleeping together because…”

“Because you’re a slut?” I offered. He gave me a hard look. “What? That’s your reputation.”

“I know what my reputation is.”

“Do you?”

“Yes.”

“People say you’re a womanizer, that you take advantage of girls. You’re notorious for dumping girls after fucking them. In fact, I heard you got a server pregnant then abandoned her.”

“What?” he shouted. Moreau uncrossed his arms and pushed away from the desk. “That’s not true. I like to fuck around- I don’t deny it- but I’ve never abandoned a pregnant girlfriend, or whatever nonsense people are saying behind my back.”

I shrugged as if it made no difference to me, but in truth it did.

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