Secret Sauce by Jill Sanders

Author:Jill Sanders [Sanders, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Anthologies, Contemporary, New Adult & College, Romantic Suspense, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Crime Fiction, Kidnapping, Collections & Anthologies, Mystery & Suspense, Suspense, Series, dpgroup.org, IDS@DPG
Amazon: B00M0CSK2Q
Publisher: Jill Sanders
Published: 2014-08-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Trent found it very hard to concentrate while Marina and Tommy were in Boston, but the deadlines that loomed over him caused him to stay busy. He spent half his time at the new site sorting out the workers there and the rest of his time at Manhattan Nights. The restaurant was finally recovering from Marina’s bad review. The two large rooms in the back were booked solid for the upcoming holiday seasons, including several large wedding receptions. He knew that a bad review could make or break a restaurant, but it seemed that most of his clientele hadn’t paid too much attention to what others thought, after all.

As he’s always told his staff, his food spoke for itself. He’d spent the first two years after opening Manhattan Nights perfecting his specialty items. They boasted the tastiest roasted duck in town. It had his grandmother’s secret apple dressing on top, something that had been handed down to him and him alone. He didn’t even let his staff know the recipe. Instead, he came in three times a week and cooked up a large batch of it.

That sauce had won more awards than even he could remember. His grandmother, Florence, had brought the recipe over from Sweden when she was a child. It had been handed down from daughter to daughter until he’d shown an interest in cooking instead of his sister Rachelle, who had a talent for numbers and accounting.

Along with the apple dressing, there were a handful of other recipes of his grandmother’s that he used. In fact, there was a large book of them that he kept in his home safe. If it hadn’t been for that book, he never would have had the idea of opening up a restaurant. He owed a lot to his grandmother and mother for encouraging him to follow his dream.

He was working on only a few hours of sleep and had just found out that he’d have to pull a full shift tonight. He’d woken early for a meeting with the foremen at the new site to work through an issue they were having with the ventilation system. After going back and forth with the man and the building inspector for almost an hour, he’d walked away with a growing headache.

Now, as he stood and looked at his busy kitchen, he wondered how he would get the strength to make it through the night.

About an hour into his shift, his cell phone rang. He didn’t let his staff hold onto their cell phones during a shift, but he made an exception for himself. Walking into his office, he answered the call from Marina.

“Hi,” he said as he sat down behind his desk.

“Hi. I hope I’m not disturbing you.” Just the sound of her voice made him smile.

“No, not at all. How was the museum today?”

“Wonderful. Did you know they have this huge game of Operation? You remember that game?”

“Yeah, loved it as a kid.”

“Well, there’s this huge section called Grossology where we learned all about the human body.

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