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Chapter 8 - Jackass CEO
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2021-01-18 18:53:46Jenna
“We need to work faster! The customers are waiting for their food!”
My eyes almost bulge out of their sockets when I stride out of the locker room. Ariel is working in the kitchen like just another ordinary person. The sight of him wearing an apron while sweating behind a frying pan is peculiar enough to turn me into stone.
“Faster!” Ariel orders. “The chicken needs to go into the pan!”
I clamp my lips together when he glances at me, hating how my insides burn at the sight of him, loathing his good looks.
“Jenna! Don’t just stand there! Start serving the customers their food!”
Ariel’s commanding voice clears my thoughts. I swear the guy is louder than Gordon Ramsay, which is rather alarming.
“Yes, chef!”
Hastily, I lower myself to pick up the finished plates and catch my reflection in the glazed tiles over the counter—smoked eyes with determinat
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