Ryan Callahan’s parents died in a boating accident off Sutter’s Bay when he was five years old. Now Ryan is back in the bay ready to live in the Victorian reproduction house his father built for his mother. And ready to get his dream job a chef in a restaurant. The job of head chef seems to fall into his lap when Mabry’s is short staffed, but when the sexy as sin owner, Chris Mabry, returns from vacation he fires the inexperienced Ryan on the spot.<br><br>Ryan’s dream seems to be over before he gets a chance to prove himself, but when Chris realizes how bad his restaurant’s situation is, he rehires Ryan. As Mabry becomes a success, things sizzle between Ryan and Chris and soon Ryan is cooking for Chris personally.

Tempted to Taste

“You’d want to cook on your day off?” Chris asked.


“You wouldn’t want to just go out to dinner or something?”


Ryan smiled because now he knew Chris wasn’t going to say no. “We wouldn’t want to patronize the competition, would we? Besides, I like the idea of just you and me…alone.”


Chris licked his lips. “Okay. Sounds good.”


“Oh, it will be,” Ryan said, full of confidence now that Chris had agreed. “But that means you have to be off work. Unless there’s an emergency. No sneaking from your apartment up to the restaurant when I’m not looking.”


Now he frowned. Ryan didn’t like it when he frowned. He should be smiling all the time. “Not at the restaurant at all? I don’t know.”


“I do. Get Damon to cover. You said yourself it was your least busy night. He can handle it. You went to Mexico, didn’t you?”


Chris laughed. “Yeah, and lost half my staff.”


Chapter 7