All Chapters of In the Billionaire's Kitchen: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Three days.That ridiculous deadline had followed me into the elevator, through a board meeting, and now into the banking hall where I should be feeling fulfilled after a meeting. But no. The countdown to forced marriage by my own parents, which is quite similar to imprisonment, fills my mind.I looked at my watch. I let out a breath when I saw that it was barely six. Enough time to go home, pour myself a glass of wine, eat yesterday's leftover pasta, and pretend I didn't have exactly three days to manufacture a husband."Oh. You’re so young. I bet patients ask for you all the time,” a teller from one of the counters commented as she eyed the man in front of her with something I can’t explain, “I know I would.”I stopped walking when I saw how she winked at him.I watched them carefully. The teller was smiling. The customer wasn't. The teller was leaning over the counter, chatting with a customer as though they were on a first date instead of discussing a loan application. Company pol

I had been proposed to exactly zero times in my life. Zero. Twenty-four years on this planet, four years of nursing school, countless double shifts, one broken heart in college, yet somehow nobody had ever looked at me and thought, ‘Yes, that's the man I want to marry.’Dates with girls would either end in “It’s not you, it’s me.” which I know is a massive lie, or they’d just stop responding after the first date.Then, somehow, on a random Tuesday evening, one of the richest women in New York had walked out of a bank with me and asked me to marry her.Life was really funny like that. Similar to how getting hit by a bus is funny.I unlocked the door to my apartment and immediately regretted coming home.The kitchen light was still on. That means one thing.That meant my mother was awake.Wonderful.“You're late.”There we go. That’s my mom. I hadn't even taken my shoes off yet.“Good evening to you too, my dearest mother.”She sat at the tiny dining table, bills scattered in front of h