Chapter 35 Desperation is setting in

• Amberleigh didn’t see Grayson for the next few days and she began to get the vibe he was purposefully avoiding her. Even when she got up before the sun did, their paths didn’t cross, as if he waited until she went back to bed to leave or left the apartment while it was still dark out. He may not have come home at all some nights, perhaps crashing at the office, or at another woman’s place? That angered her more than it fucking should have. She didn’t own him, but he owned her pretty much. But Amber couldn’t do her job if the most important piece of equipment wasn’t in operation.
• However, she was getting to know Leo quite well and more than once she found herself daydreaming, she’d signed the contract with him instead. Every day they got together in the kitchen for a lesson and a chat. Seriously, Leo was like that gay best friend girls hoped to find, without him actually being gay. Because it was clear the way he talked, he was a boob’s man alright.
• The first days they started with the basics, just cutting, chopping, dicing etc., as Amberleigh confessed more than one time, she was likely hopeless at this cooking business. Leo was a patient teacher, but truth be told, they cooked up more gossip than anything else. Grayson was a topic they rarely hit on, but everything else seemed to be free game really, and Leo was an expert source of salacious rich people scandals. The latest scandals rocking the uptown was Senator Berkshire was about to leave his wife for his twenty-year-old personal assistant, and the heiress to Giorgio’s Italian restaurant empire was in hiding due to a nasty case of oral herpes.