Chapter 1
“What is wrong with you? I needed that fish three minutes ago. Did you learn to cook in a cave?”
“You needed it twelve seconds ago,” Sam shot back. And decided against telling Luisa Valenti that she wasn’t going to get it for another thirty seconds. Besides, the kitchen’s aboyeur was busy dressing the plate of pappardelle with wild boar ragù that he’d just handed across the line.
“Fine, then where’s my trio of sea scallops and squid-ink pasta?” She didn’t even stop for a breath. “Though why everyone at a table would order the same dish is beyond sad. Just keep cooking the way you are and maybe we’ll never see such dweebs ever again.”
“Open your pretty eyes, Luisa,” he teased her as his sous chef Marlys slid the three matching plates onto the warmer shelf that separated his st
