Chapter 24

“You’re on,” he whispered in her ear as he placed an arm around her waist.

Camille recognised the chef who emerged from the kitchen to greet Theo from the television. The two men spoke for a few minutes, drifting seamlessly from French, which Theo spoke fluently, to English before Theo drew her forward and introduced her.

The chef—apparently she was to call him Louis—kissed her hand with Gallic charm, saying some charming things that made Camille flush before he released her back to Theo.

“Your party are already here, I think, Theo?”

Theo received the information in stony silence; he had seen Louis’s charm offensive before and found it amusing, but he discovered that it had lost some of its entertainment value for him. Considering the French chef’s reputation for showing diners who offended him the door—though, admittedly, it was hard to imagine anyone pulling that sort of stunt with Theo—Camille just hoped she had smiled in the right places because her nerv