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Автор: Jenny Oliver
Издательство: HarperCollins
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Жанр произведения: Современные любовные романы
Год издания: 0
isbn: 9781472073761
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the call. Rachel had watched the closed door jealously, reluctant to go back up to her room, especially now she was going back for more of Chef the next day. Wishing instead that the doors to this sumptuous apartment might open up and swallow her whole.

      What was it Chantal had said about Chef? Not a good home. Rachel had thought of lovely little Tommy back in Nettleton who’d been adopted by Mr Swanson and his wife two years ago. He’d had not a good home. As he stood in front of her now she tried to imagine Chef at Tommy’s age. Looking up at his stern, miserable face, she tried to picture him as a five-year-old, as one of her sweet little class with trousers too big and jam down his cardigan.

      She watched him glance at her apron and take in its absent flowers.

      ‘Well, we’ll have to see if you do better today, won’t we?’ He smirked.

      ‘Yes, Chef.’ She nodded. No, it was no good. He just wouldn’t shrink to the size of one of her pupils. He had been born a fully fledged pain in the bum, she was sure of it.

      ‘I have my eye on you,’ he said as he strode away.

      Rachel made the mistake of glancing to her right and saw Lacey raise her brows with disdain.

      The day started with pastry. Filo, short, flaky, puff, choux. Savoury and sweet.

      ‘You know nothing about pastry. Everything you think you know, you don’t know,’ hollered Chef.

      All morning they sweated over it. Chef coming over and screwing it into a lump, slapping it across the room to the bin, shouting, ‘Too much flour. Start again.’

      Abby cried. George had a coughing fit and Tony cut another finger, rendering him useless for the afternoon’s challenge.

      ‘After lunch you make me something. I spend the day teaching you, now you give it back to me. I want to see what you have. In here.’ Chef bashed his chest with his fist. ‘Now leave, it is lunchtime.’

      Rachel walked out with Abby, both bundled into their coats and scarfs ready for the wintry cold that had hit last night.

      ‘I’ve left my family at Christmas for this guy. He’s a nightmare,’ Abby whispered as they left the room.

      ‘You have kids?’

      ‘Two. Little girl and boy. One year apart. Glutton for punishment, me. I’ve told them I’m off meeting Santa—we need to discuss how good they’ve been this year.’ Pulling out her purse, she showed Rachel a picture—a passport-photo strip in a plastic wallet of two bright blond children, aged about six or seven, could have been younger, and a fun-looking surfer-type guy holding them on his knee.

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