Chapter 416

Jonathan turned his back on the rest of the truffles. He was tempted to gorge himself on them, a substitute for the woman he couldn’t have. Instead, he strode over to his computer and committed his recipe and initial taste test evaluations to a digital file. He would get one of the other lab technicians to recreate the recipe and then move it forward into the testing phase. It was too perfect a combination to ignore even if he had to make a valiant effort to ignore the woman who inspired it. Liam Thompson watched the front of the building all day. The chance meeting with Emma at the club the night before seemed too close for comfort at first. When he had seen Jonathon Ashby looking right at him, he thought the game was up. Emma had called him Jake Campbell, which made Liam wonder why Jonathon was going by an assumed name in his own company. The only explanation he had was that Jonathon was onto him. This whole thing started because of a photograph he’d found in a box his mother had sen