Chapter 12
In the wake of Nigel Hitchens’ article, Athena kept a low profile, spending most of her time at the inn or the farm. She kept expecting somebody else to pop out of the woodwork to interrupt her life, set her back again. Though, she’d ultimately handled the whole critic situation with more resilience than she’d have managed without Logan to lean on. He’d been right. She didn’t really want to be a part of the haute cuisine world anymore. She hated the needless pretension and the automatic assumption of classism that went along with it. Cooking for real people, normal people had given her more pleasure than she’d expected. Since she’d taken over the breakfast service at the inn, it had become something of a personal challenge to elevate humble ingredients to something more, someth
