The Heartbeat at the Tip of the Tongue | LK Adaption

Chapter 43 : If You're Not Confident I'll Kiss You

Her heartbeat increased by leaps and bounds.

She knew that it wasn't due to her becoming a chef for a day, but because of the close distance between Jungkook and her.

His breath, his warmth, once again invaded her world, unable to exclude, unable to refuse.

When he turned his face over, and tucked her flyaways to the back of her ears, she even had an illusion that he was going to kiss her again.

"Now, I will greet my friends, introduce today's dish. You can prepare to start work now. Do you know what you have to do?"

"Marinate steak, make dessert, because the former needs time to let the flavours sink in, and the latter needs time to freeze."

"Very good."

With those words, Jungkook retreated 2 steps, turned around and walked out.

This dinner's location was on the 2nd floor terrace of this villa.

The table was set appropriately. The simple vase held a fresh bouquet of lavender, that with a soft breeze, would one be able to smell a relaxing scent.

The glass wares that held the candles, just happened to be placed in front of the 3 guests.

Mayer elegantly helped them to aerate the wine, the 3 guests were full of laughter.

When Jungkook appeared, the 3 of them stood up.

"Mr Jeon!??"

"Hello." Jungkook nodded, reaching his hand out to offer them a seat, "it's been a long time since I've invited the three of you here. Of course, most of the time it's to give the newly designed dishes for the new menu a taste test. Everyone knows that I plan to open a casual dining restaurant in New York, where the target group is the middle class. So, in this kind of restaurant, there will not be extremely expensive ingredients like caviar or black truffles. My goal, is to use commonly available ingredients to make flavours that the average person will find delicious, but be unable to easily recreate in their homes."

"Yes, a lot of f&b industry giants are considering doing chain restaurants now. Even though personally don't agree with this kind of utilitarian practice, restaurants need to make profit and at the same time become large scale. The restaurant Mr Jeon speaks of is a great choice. On one hand, there won't be managerial problems due to the chain restaurants, and on the other, cheaper ingredients can be used to create high-quality foods, and help Jeon co. to widen their reputation, to be known to more people."

"Furthermore, chefs of this kind of restaurants need not be as fine as other fine dining restaurants, after all, even though there needs to be a certain foundation of the common ingredients most people are familiar with, it's not necessary to have complicated preparation like the other starred restaurants, service will be more productive."

The few guests talked among themselves, with much anticipation for the dishes that will be presented.

"in that case, please wait a moment."

After Jungkook announced the menu for today, the three guests were very curious.

"don't know how the Italian balsamic steak Mr Jeon made would taste like? You must know, that every time my wife makes me this dish, I feel like it's a nightmare. Even though it's common, not everyone can make it well."

"You're funny, you obviously know that you can make it yourself, why would you let your wife torture your tongue?"

"this is the way my wife shows her love for me, even if it's torture, I will gladly accept."