Chapter 153

Erik's POV 

Cassidy stayed with me in the kitchen while her mother made her way to the other room to wait for us to serve the cut-up turkey. Slowly, I let the knife saw into the side of the turkey and it returned me a large chunk of white meat. This didn't seem all that hard after all. I just needed to see down each side of the cooked bird and put the pieces of turkey onto the platter that was set out.

Cassidy seemed amused as she watched me cut through the first few pieces of meat. Her smile was brilliantly white and her giggles were just as distracting to me as I tried to look professional in my turkey-cutting skills.

Even though I was technically a vegan, I didn't have moral obligations that kept me from eating meat or cutting it up for that matter. I just couldn't do it because I hadn't ever seen someone cut a turkey before, and I had no frame of reference for where to start with the process.

"You have no idea what you're doing, do you?" she finally