Chapter 9 The Chef's Rule

• Antoine Moreau had built his life on rules.
• In the kitchen, in business, in his very own skin;everything was precision and control, measured down to the breath. A dish burned by one second was a failure. A hand that trembled while plating betrayed weakness. And weakness, he’d learned long ago, was an infection: once allowed, it spread until everything rotted.
• So when he noticed Élise Dubois’s hands shaking as she folded the newspaper, alarm bells rang.