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Chapter 29: Fourteen Weeks
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2026-09-17 00:24:14
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Pregnant For My Husband's Enemy Chapter 29: Fourteen Weeks
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The cooking lesson lasted three hours and produced a passable boeuf bourguignon and one significant argument.Not a bad argument — not the kind with damage in it. The kind that happens between two people who are both precise and both certain and have arrived, for the first time, at a question they answer differently. It started over the wine — specifically, over whether I was allowed to add it before the vegetables had properly caramelised, which Killian held was critical and which I held was a matter of interpretation."It is not a matter of interpretation," he said, with the patience of a man explaining something load-bearing. "The caramelisation creates the base. If you add the wine before—""The wine deglazes," I said. "That's the point.""The deglaze happens after the fond develops," he said. "The fond requires—""I know what the fond requires," I said. "I'm saying the timing is flexible."He looked at me across the kitchen island with the expression of a man encountering genuine
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