Ethan:
I stood in the kitchen, looking at the mess Olivia and I made while we ate.
I smiled, running a hand through my hair.
I love you.
She had said it back. She loved me. After all these years, after everything, she loved me.
But as I picked up the scattered items and wiped down the counter, my mind was already shifting to what came next.
I grabbed my notebook from the side table and flipped it open.
Lume Soft Opening: 3 weeks
Hayes Industries Expo: 4 days
Four days.
Four days to prove that Lume was not just another restaurant trying to survive in New York’s cutthroat food scene. Four days to show that everything I had learned in Saint Tropez, every franc I had saved working under Chef Armand, every sacrifice I had made, it all mattered.
The expo was not just catering. It was
