Chapter 20. Is He That Guy?

Sergeant York introduced each of the dishes to Kate and even told her how they had been prepared.

“You know so much about food.” She said.

“Yes. My family is in this business.”

“They have a restaurant?”

“Right.” York grinned. To be exact, they had chains of more than ten restaurants in California. But he rarely told others about it because he had been overweight when he was a teenager.

“Really? I could not imagine what you looked like when you were fat.”

“When I decided to be a policeman, I started a diet. I went out running for 15 miles a day. My mom cried after seeing me lose so much weight.”

“So you decided to be a policeman very early on?”

“Yes.”

“My parents started from scratch. They rented a very small shop and sold pancakes and hotdogs at first. Because the food they made was delicious and cheap, they had good business.”

“Some street gangs always came to find trouble. They asked for a protection fee, free food and al