Chapter 29
red to focus on my work. But every so often she drifted into my thoughts, making me lose my focus. I had been a heartbeat away from kissing Hana yesterday. I didn’t know how I felt about chackering ent at the last sessed. That wart à lk. I knew exactly how I felt about it and I had the urge to kick my own ads. The thing that comfited me was the part that came after the kas, fudging – from how she had reacted yesterday, Hans didn’t seem to mind the idea of kissing me. But did she see it as a fun thing? A roll in the bed to move on from her marriage, maybe even a secret. revenge an Simon! She didn’t seem like the type to be interested in something like that. So did she want a selationship? Did I want that? I knew it would reise some eyebrows if that is what weg went for. I was irritated at impelf for caring about such things of my age. Befors 1 could go down the rabbit hole too far, Clair let me know Chef had arrived. It was the distraction I needed.
“Chef” I preeted the mon that walked into my office. He was almod át tall name, had a som old cap on his head where locks of his ferry red hair poked out from. His brown eyes held imitation as he crossed hit anm, ignated itry gesture to sit down and balead remained standing.
“What, boss? Some of us don’t have time to sit on our old ans and do nothing” he cold, I just smiled at him. He was grumpy, it seas part of his charm. Flu more than made up for it with he booking.
“Tess you have heard that I have been helping out a woman,” I started. More worse than old women when it come to gossip. It was the one thing they could occupy themselves with during takeouts and transportation. I know my personal involvement with Hara’s case wouldn’t have gone unnoticed. And the kitchen and dining room were like the grand central station for all
*Yeah, you’re helping some tight little damel in distress at I hear it. Working on getting some of that, I presume,” he said. For the first time in a long while, Chef’s comments ribbed me the wrong
“Carefully,” I warned him. The only change in his demeanour was raised eyebrow and I knew I had given away more than I had intended.
“What does this have to do with me?” he asked.
“His starting a caring business.” He added.
*1 heard she made one or palesacording to the men,” he did.” you want me to start using her for desserts or something?”
“No. I think the can get her business rolling without our business. But I promised her she could the our kitchen when she needed to Something about not being able to use the kitchen in her apartment,” I said and braised for impact.
“You did fucking what?! You promised a skirt that she could use MY fucking kitchen?” he yelled.
“Watch how you talk about her. And last time I checked it was my and lason’s name on the company, not
not yours.” I bit back.
“Well, I beg your fucking ponton, boss. 11 member that not time we need to do a deep clean. Jason and you can lose your an out of those thrones and pick up a bag.” I sighed and rubbed my face with my hands,
“Okay, okay. So it’s your kitchen,” I admitted
“Tucking right ”
“But Hana will still be
will still be allowed to use it. It’s not that often and she sell me it in the evenings to the won’t get in your way,” I told him.
“She will mess it up. She won’t live up to my standards, she will leave things where they don’t belong and just drive me insane. You know I don’t let anyone into my kitchen,” he muttered.
“I know, I know. But she almost as big of a not freak as you. I have seen her kitchen, it’s meticulous. She has through a fucked up time and she needs a way to get back on har det and feel good about herself.” I told him. I was playing dirty, but like the rest of us he couldn’t resist a damel in distress.
“She better not fuck anything up,” he said,
“She won’t. I’ll bring her by later today to you can walk through all the rules and in’s and outs of the kitchen. We ate some of your chicken casserole yesterday, was delicious by the way. And she couldn’t stop pushing about how aming the kitchen was.”
“Of course the caserole was amazing, it’s my chicken casserole. Well, at least she has good taste. That is something to work with. Bring her by and and let her off” he said.
to her. But I won’t be a fucking wimp
“That in faic” I agreed and made a mental note to wanabee taled to
to Chel.
“I that win all, I have things to cook,” he said and walked out of the office without waiting for reply. I wondered if I was doing the right thing. Hana had admitted to being uncomfortable around men she didn’t know. Maybe it was a bad idea to expose her to Chef. I knew he would never do something to harm a woman unless it was to save his own life. But his mouth could be an issue. I could always hang around the kitchen the fast times she used it, play defence for her and moth things over. It would give me an excuse to be amand Hana until I figured out what I wanted from her. I sighed and proclaimed myself a coward and a baby. I needed to guest’s pair and just make up my mind. My caldar reminded me it was time for my meeting with John and a minute later, Clair and him. After he had sit down opposite me I took a deep breath to steel myself.
” he still living in the same place?” I asked jahat.
“No, boss. He moved out the morning after you visited him.” I nodded. At least he had some brains. “He has moved in with Miss Willion, fohn added. I had to wreck my brains for a minute before I placed the name leis. It had been what he called the woman that had been to see him the same time I was I nodded again.
“Any unusual activities?” I asked John eight him bele he could squins in the chair, but he did look uncharacteristically uncomfortable, “Just say it, I don’t have a high po ofim at the moment,” I told him.
Chapter 29
“Well, boss. We noticed that he ordered a lot of pizza. Almost every day there was a delivery from the same pizza place. It felt off, so we investigated and found talk on place with drug dealing,” John said.
“For fuck sake. It’s like he wants Akako to find him.” I said in frustration,
“It’s not being run by the Russian mob” John said. “It belongs to the Chinese.” I just looked at him like he was crazy. To be fair, the crazy one here was my son.
“Simon is involved with the triad?” I asked, just making sure I understand the report correctly.
“We suspect so,” John confirmed.
“Fuck! I’m going to string him up by the balls,” I shouted. John got a little paler.
“We dont know to what extent, boss. He could just be buying drugs for national use and being smart about who he buys from,” John told me
“I never thought there would be a day when my son buying drugs for personal use would be the outcome I was hoping for,” I said with a deep sigh.
“I’m sorry, boss.” I waved my hand at him.
that connects the
“It’s not your fault, I’m grateful for your meticulous work, just as exceptional as always. Thank you. Is there anything else? I asked. John had some minor things to report. “Okay, thank you, Tehn. I’m going to keep your team on this. Please let me know what you find. If you see any indication of the triad or any other organisation of that kind, let me know straight away.”
“Yes, boss” John then stood up and left. The fucking triad. Simon was playing a dangerous game. I needed to figure out how to get him out and I needed to make sure things didn’t spill over to Hana. How the fuck was I’m going to keep her safe in the middle of all of this? I needed to calm down and my brain started to replay the conversation I had with Hana when we went for low cream the previous day. It did the trick as 1 found myself smiling. That was when I found a solution to my problem with Hana. I would ask her out on a date, a real one. It was the most obvious answer and I felt like an icot that it had taken this long to think of it. That was how you found out if someone liked you. You asked them to spend time with you. You don’t spring unexpected kisses on them or ask if they can see a future with you. I would ask her out, and if she was interested she would say yes. If she tamed me down, it would still be salvageable and we could remain friends. But if she said yes, then I could show her how she should be treated. I would buy her flowers, maybe some chocolates with cherry flavour, and I would choose a nice place to take her to. I was getting excited just thinking about it. It had been a long time since I had gone on a real data. The last few years I had a couple of one night stands, but nothing serious. But now I couldn’t wait for work to be done so I could go and see ber
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