MY INDECENT VALENTINE (ABLAZE #2) BY LUCY LIMÓN EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: LUCY LIMÓN
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Sofia
I left my home in Winter Bliss and came to Chicago three years ago,
following a golden-horned demon. Samite. I was at my lowest when he
showed up one winter’s day right before Christmas. I was lost in a frozen
winter of solitude, crushed by disappointment, and with little more than his
hungry tongue and his sassy mouth, he stoked a raging fire inside me that
burned it all away. Now, he’s my business partner and, more recently, my
husband. We co-own this place.
Welcome to Ollas Encendidas, the first and only entirely open-flame
restaurant in all of Chicagoland. I hope you have a reservation because
we’re fully booked tonight.
“Flare up!” I call out just as the rotisseur chef on my right makes a
clumsy move and sloshes her basting pan. Hot grease hits the fire, and
tongues of flame leap three feet into the air. My pulse spikes, and my breath
catches at the intoxicating mix of danger and beauty. I have to tear my eyes
away. I know better than to let myself get drawn in. It’s easy to get lost in a
moment. I love the flames.
“¿Donde está el plato vegetariano?” I yell at my legumier. I need that
damn vegetarian plate. It’s holding up this ticket.
“Ahí te va,” he assures me on a hasty breath. It’s coming, but everyone’s
in the weeds.
“¡Apúrate!” I shout back. “I needed it three minutes ago!”
Ollas Encendidas is not like other restaurants. The kitchen isn’t housed in
the back, hidden away with its culinary magic concealed and
underappreciated. Here, it’s on display, elevated on a circular stage at the
center of the dining area with hungry, cosmopolitan guests seated in the
round. Cooking is magic. It’s art. It’s a wonder worthy of an audience,
especially when done like this.
Everything on our menu is cooked on a traditional hearth over logs, coals,
and open flame. The circular hearth, made of cast iron, steel, and brick, is
divided into cooking stations, and above it is the halo. That’s what we call
the gigantic custom hood hanging overhead. It’s a gleaming metal ring,
twenty feet in diameter, that draws the smoke from the hearth. Samite
designed it. It’s a work of art, elegant in its simplicity, yet a statement piece
that transforms the space.
It was his idea to light it like this so that the
guests see the swirling of the white smoke as it’s sucked up by the fans
hidden inside the halo. It’s just a trick of the light, but it adds to the magic.
On a good night, this place is everything I imagined it would be. A dream
come true. Unfortunately, the jury is still out on what kind of night this will
be. I can feel the chaos simmering below the surface, ready to erupt. I can
only tighten my grip so much.
I glance around the crowded room. Waiters are sprinting and bumping
into each other. There are too many tables. I keep saying that, but Samite
insists we need them. The bar is slammed. Cocktail shakers flash through
the air like bullets, and still, our team of elbow-to-elbow bartenders can’t
keep up.
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