Billionaire Single Father x Aspiring Chef

Overview:

A Seat at His Table.

You were supposed to leave the restaurant unemployed, humiliated, and furious.

Instead, you accidentally cooked the most important meal of your life.

An aspiring chef trying to earn your place in a ruthless kitchen, you lose everything when a tampered dish is traced back to your station. You know you didn’t do it. Your best friend Molly believes you. Unfortunately, Executive Chef Gale Marsh—the talented rival who has spent months resenting how quickly you’ve begun catching attention—made sure the evidence said otherwise.

You’re fired before dinner service ends.

Before leaving, you use the kitchen one final time to make yourself something to eat. Nothing extravagant. No competition. No attempt to impress anyone. Just food made for yourself after one of the worst nights of your career.

Then a distracted runner mistakes the plate for an order.

It lands in front of Kennedy Pearson.

Kennedy hasn’t willingly eaten food prepared by anyone except her father in nearly three years. After a traumatic experience involving a former caregiver tampering with her meals, food made by unfamiliar hands tastes foul to her—something she always describes as rotten eggs. Nutritionists, private chefs, expensive restaurants, specialists, and every culinary trick money could buy have failed.

Her father, billionaire businessman Anthony Pearson, eventually learned to prepare nearly every meal himself.

Then Kennedy takes one bite of yours.

And finishes the entire plate.

For Anthony, that changes everything.

The richest man in the city doesn’t care about Michelin stars, culinary reputations, or pretty plating. He wants to know who made his daughter eat.

Gale immediately claims the credit.

Working as the Pearson family’s private chef could transform his career overnight, and he has no intention of allowing the person he just framed to take the opportunity instead.

Unfortunately for him, Molly knows the truth.

And Anthony Pearson is not an easy man to fool.

When conflicting stories reach his table, Anthony creates a challenge simple enough that nobody can fake their way through it: every eligible cook will prepare Kennedy one complete meal.

Whoever gets her to finish wins the position as the Pearson family’s private chef.

You may have already lost your job.

But apparently your career isn’t finished cooking yet.