Not Husband Material: Billionaire's Contract Series by Violet Paige

Author:Violet Paige [Paige, Violet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Head Over Heels Press
Published: 2018-01-18T18:30:00+00:00

3

Chase

It wasn’t often that my research into a resort proved me wrong, but this dinner was full of surprises for me.

The one part of the resort I hadn’t expected to have to change was the kitchen. From everything I had heard, there was a masterful French chef on staff who’d worked for the company for years. Supposedly, he hand-picked the kitchen staff and ran a very tight operation.

The menu didn’t look anything near that level of class.

“Pork tenderloin,” I murmured in disbelief as I browsed the menu. It wasn’t a bad menu, necessarily, but it wasn’t the caliber I was expecting, based on the place’s reputation. The look on my face must have made the server nervous, because when I noticed him finally approaching, he had an apologetic look on his face already.

“Good evening, sir,” he greeted me, “a pleasure to have you here.”

“What Scotch do you recommend?” I asked without missing a beat, peering up at him and setting the menu down. He looked like a deer in the headlights, obviously not prepared for the question.

“I’m not much of a Scotch drinker,” he admitted. “I do know we have a rare, top-shelf single malt that’s supposed to be imported from a very old distillery in the Highlands.”

I gave him a tight smile and let silence hang between us for a few painfully tense seconds.

“I would hope it’s imported, if it’s Scotch,” I explained, barely holding back my condescension. The server laughed nervously, but I just stared back at him.

“If you have something that has a number ‘18’ or higher on it from the top shelf, bring me that,” I requested slowly, handing him the menu. “And I’ll take the lamb stew.”

“Excellent choice, sir.” The server hurried away. I watched him go with a glare made of steel.

I was sitting in the far back of the resort’s restaurant where I could see everything from the most shadowy corner of the room. The fact that there was a part of the room more shadowy than the rest was another mark off in my book.

Fortunately, I wasn’t really inspecting this place so much as taking stock of everything.

I was assessing my purchase.

While I waited for my food, I surveyed the room. There were a few handfuls of people around, but it certainly wasn’t a full house. Not the kind of night you’d expect at the peak of skiing season. At one of my resorts, this would be considered a stunning failure of a night.

Meanwhile, I could have sworn I caught some of the conversation between two of the bartenders complaining about how busy things were this evening.

Some of the guests were younger people, including a group of young women at bar who were less than subtle about throwing glances my way, but I ignored them for the time being. If I wanted a little fun after my initial assessment of the place was finished, I’d give them the attention they were craving, but business was business.

I never got distracted. That kind of behavior was my little brother’s attitude to life.

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