Free Love and Food by K.L. Prince Page B

few bites because she thought her dish had been put together haphazardly and what she thought was without care.  “Okay, I will do it,” she says after contemplation.
                  “It a big undertaking, but I believe that you’re more than capable of doing it.  This is your restaurant and I think that every single aspect of it should be a reflection of you, including the menu.  I want people to come here because of you.  You’re the shining star.  Anyone who sees you must be blind if they don’t recognize that you are someone very special.”
                  She can’t help but laugh.  “Is that what you tell all your clients?”
                  “Haillee, I only speak the truth.  If I didn’t believe that you had something special going for you, I wouldn’t be sitting here.”
                  “Well, thanks for the kind words.  I appreciate them.”
                  “Just telling you how I see it.  I think that we’re off to a good start, but I have a meeting, so I’ve got to run.  I want you to think about the menu and the next time that we meet, I want to discuss the décor.  I have some ideas that I want to run by you and we’ll go from there.”
                  “Okay.  Sounds good,” she says as they stand.
                  She walks him to the door and watches him disappear from view.  She turns and looks at the restaurant.  Soon it will look very different.  Soon everything about her surroundings will be very different.  She knows that she is more than ready for it to happen, but she can’t deny the small amount of grief that she feels inside.  It will be like saying goodbye to a very dear friend.
                  As she walks through the dining room and thinks about what Ethan said about cooking, she allows herself to accept the fact that he is right.  She has lost her spark for cooking.  She has lost what was once her only passion in life.  She doesn’t know why she didn’t put together the menu herself in the first place.  She guesses that it was just a matter of time.  She didn’t have enough time to do everything, so she left it in what she thought was good hands.  She wonders what Mack is going to think when she tells him that she is revamping the menu.  She is sure that he will understand her choices.  He’s been with every single day.  He knows what’s been happening.  He knows that a change has been needed.
                  She walks into her office with a newfound confidence.  She wants to get her spark back.  She wants the feeling that she had when she first conceived the restaurant in her mind way back when and she is determined to get it.  The feeling that nothing is going to stop her is starting to reemerge and bloom.  She is beginning to feel her old self returning.  She is starting to feel very sure that her decision to allow Ethan into her world it going to pay off.  She needed Ethan to point out to her that she had lost some of her original spunk and desire.  She is already grateful for his presence.  She is starting to believe that he is her miracle.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 6
     
     
     
                  “Kyle, where have you been?” she asks, angry inside, but trying not to let it show in her voice.
                  “Out,” he says dismissively.
                  “Where have you been?” she asks again calmly.
                  “I just told you.  I was out.”
                  “Why won’t you tell me where you’ve been?  If you weren’t up to no good, why won’t you just tell me where you were?”
                  “Haillee, we’ve been over this.  You need to trust me.  When I tell you that I’ve been out, you need to believe that I was just out and not with some other