“No wonder! This restaurant is pretty awesome,” Xyla Quest declared.

“I invited him to come,” Stanley Batton told her.

“Oh, impressive! I like his food.”

He then took a bite of a piece of medium-rare beef.

“Do you?” he asked, lowering his gaze to cut a piece of beef before feeding it to her.

“Yeah, I do,” she nodded with a smile, chewing in contentment.

“That’s settled, then. I’ll hire the chef to work at our house from now on,” he decided.

“Let’s not," she said hastily. "You know I’m no