Somewhere Between Love and Revenge

May the best man lose

Every news channel carried the news that Mr Hugh, the number one businessman and the richest man in the country wanted a chef.

Hugh Anton sat on a couch in his sitting room watching the news. He laughed loudly.

This was a way to show his rivals that he was more than them.
He knew that his rivals or enemies would try to use this opportunity against him and he wanted them to know that he wasn't a fool, he wasn't CEO Hugh Anton for nothing.
He could just tell Robert to get him a high class chef, but he wanted a game.

He twirled the glass of red wine in his hand and smirked.

'Well let the fun begin, and may the best man lose'

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Mia stood confidently at the back of the line in a navy blue jean, black tee and black flats which she was very uncomfortable in, and her hair was in a ponytail.

There was a long line of people seeking the job, standing outside one Mr Hugh's five star hotels.

The security guards did a thorough search with gadgets before there were lead inside for a more thorough search, which was more intimate; a female guard had to search the females, and a male guard had to search the males.
Mia found this embarrassing but she had no choice.

The statistics of people that came for the job was roughly thirty and it was surprising that males were the majority.

'What was with men and cooking this days?' Mia thought

Dixon was a good cook, even Luther could cook a few meals but she just learned how to cook properly.

After the search, they were led into a room to sit and were called into an office one by one.

Mia became a little bit nervous because anyone that went in didn't come out.

She began considering if she should just leave all this and go for plan B.
Before she could make a decision, she heard a male voice whisper to her

"Hey, you're up"

She was deep in thought that she didn't hear the guard call her up, so the guy next to her had to tell her.

"Oh...thank you" she said and got up, moving towards the office.

"Sit down" Robert, Anton's PA said to her as soon as she entered.

She looked around and saw a young guy sitting next to the interviewer, Robert, he was on his computer.
She saw something on the table which she recognized as a polygraph.

'Oh...'

Lucky for her, Luther had once told her how to cheat a polygraph, so it was easy.
She wore all the wire thing-ings and sat down as calm as ever.

"Your name?"

"Natasha Donald"

Correct.

"Age?"

"I'm 26 years old"

Correct.

"What made you decide to become a cook?"

... And the interview went on, all on the correct lane.

Mr Robert looked at the guy next to him and the guy nodded.

"Go into that room"
He pointed the door on his right.

She stood up, bowed and went into the room. They were only a few people in the room and Mia wondered why.
There were some of the faces she had seen that came for the interview.

But where were the others?

Few minutes later they were given aprons and hair bonnet, then they were led into the kitchen.