Chapter 2
Luisa kept her head down to hide her smile.
She remembered her first day here, Angelo and Manuel purposely messing with her, testing her. Angelo would finish a fish and then sit on it for thirty seconds just to break her rhythm. When she’d chewed him out over the line, he’d merely smiled and handed it across.
Manuel had mixed up three different orders, just to see if she’d catch it, like she was that dense. She’d ripped him a new one and he’d told Angelo to hire her on the spot.
That had been a year ago and Angelo’s Tuscan Hearth Ristorante was now a well-oiled machine, reproducing the chef’s magic to the table with class and consistency.
And at last it was finally turnabout, her turn to be testing someone else to Angelo’s stratospheric standards. Manuel had left to run the
