“YOU LOOK SURPRISED to see me, Ms. Yoder.”
“Still?” Hannah’s cheeks felt hot.
The chef chuckled. “Don’t worry. There’s nothing wrong. I’m just here to see what my star baker has done for herself and, I have to say, I’m impressed.”
“How did you find out?”
“About your bakery?”
She nodded.
“I’ve always known,” he told her and then he chuckled again at her look of surprise. “Oh, it wasn’t on your application but word gets around. And, in all honesty, I’ve been a frequent customer of Adornetto’s over the years. Their verbal recommendation of you as a student after your apprenticeship with them preceded the written one you turned in. They might have let it slip that you had your own place, so to speak.”
She didn’t know how to respond to that so, instead, she invited him behind the counter
