The God's Chef ~Intoxicating Desire~ BETA

Chapter 27

"Do you think that he is mad at me?" Rei suddenly speaks out to the single maid in her room that was tidying things up. "Is that why he left right after that?" Rei looks down at the garden below her. The dark petals of roses moves gently from the wind and the river passing through the lush garden sparkles from the sunlight. Sitting on her window seat, she looks out of the medium sized semicircle window. Pulling her knees to her chest, she rests her but and feet on the comfortably white cushions.

"Morihika-sama," The half Japanese half French maid glances over at the depressed Rei. Still sweeping the place, she goes back and focuses on her task while answering her. "Tsukasa-sama have some elite ten business to attend to. He was supposed to leave the chateau much ealier, however he demanded his client to postpone it for later." As the light chestnut maid continues to sweep and whatever else to clean the room, she recalls the shocking moment when Tsukasa ordered the head steward to call his client and postpone the meeting for a later time.

"Everyone here was shocked when Tsukasa-sama announced that he was bringing a female guest over. But to think that it'll be his girlfriend, that sent people fainting!" She chuckles when she has another flashback. Seeing the couple leaving for SHINO'S, right after that the whole chateau erupted into chaos, sort of. "Believe it or not, but whenever he came over to France, he never stepped foot into the kitchen. When he does, it'll be somewhere else in France than the one here. It was so surprising that he brought a female guest over! Not to mention his lover to the city of love!" The mid twenties maid stops where she was and sighs dreamily. "Love,"

"R--really?" Rei blushes from hearing her rant. Feeling her heart beating wilding in her chest,,she forgets about the anonymous messages.

"Ah! Don't tell anyone that! I'll be sure to get scold by the head steward!" Picking up her equipments, she bows and leaves the room quickly.

'Really?' She hugs her knees tighter and buries her head into them. Feeling the strange sense of sudden loneliness, tears begin to well up in her eyes. 'Is it because I doubted you?' Her tears begin to stream down her face. Her heart beats slowly and painfully in her chest. Resting a hand on her heart, she clutches a fistful of fabric. 'I promise that I'll never doubt you again.'

She felt lonely in the corner. Isolation slowly begin to creep into her heart. It was a sad, lonely feeling. Her hiccups were soft and contained, not wanting to seek any attention.

"I--I want to see him... hear his voice..." Pulling out her phone that miraculously didn't have a cracking on it, Rei scrolls through her contacts. 'But, I don't have you number.' Her hot tears continues to run down her face. If she was to look at her reflection now, one word is able to describe herself: hidious. However, her eyes widens when she found his name.

Tsukasa Eishi (Your welcome, Kobayashi Rindo)

Rei chuckles when she recalls that moment when she was in the limo with Kobayashi and Tsukasa. Seeing her antics, a soft smile appears. Clicking the dial button, she rests her phone close to her mouth.

The ringing was slow and steady. Her anticipation was about to fly out of the window until the voice mail came up. Not caring, she speaks anyways.

"Hey Eishi, it's me, Rei." She can already feel her heart skipping a beat. "When are you coming back? I'll make some food for you when you do. Or maybe you already ate before hearing this voicemail? Either way, I'll make something." Rei trys not to sound sad. "How about we try and make it a romantic? But that plan already failed since I don't have anything to dress up in." She chuckles dryly, her facade voice already begins to break. "I'll ask the head steward when your coming back. Let's eat in my room, kay? I--in my room." Her eyes darts around the white room. "Y--you know what? Just... just co--come home when you can." Rei ends the call and immediately breaks down sobbing. Hugging her legs to her chest, she squeezes her phone in her hand.

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Tsukasa stares uninteresting discuss before him. Looking back down on his lap, he stares at his right hand, the hand that Rei flinched when he touched her. Recalling that earlier in the day, he sighs with exasperation. Sitting behind the table of dishes, he sits right in the middle of the line of judges. Taking up another one of Erina's job, he can only feel emptiness in her stomach. The food was bland, the stares at him felt like a hindrance to his skin, and the people recording them live seemed so annoying.

Glancing at he other judges submitting their scores, he finally remembers that he was the guest judge of the one of the famous French cuisine cook off. Pulling up the numbers, he presses the red button.

"3/20!!!!"

The emcee for the event has his eyes pipping out of his sockets. Disregarding the endless stares and loud shouts, Tsukasa specks to the mic connected to the table before him. "Je ne ressens rien. (I don't feel anything.)" Comparing it to her dish, it was trash. Utter complete trash. How long has he been like that? Sending chefs yelling and crying when they realised their score given from the first seat of the infamous Totsuki Teahouse Culinary Academy. Wondering what a chef better than they can do, much less a student still in training, they all yelled negative comments to him or silently curses under their breath.

'I want to touch her.' From the outside, it looks like he was cold and emotionless, but inside, he was grieving over the fact that Rei was scared when he touched her. 'How much longer?' Looking up, he stares at the approaching chef with dishes on his hands and arm. Sending fearful shivers down their spines, they avoid eye contact with him. 'I want to eat your cooking.'

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"You had a unknown phone call, Tsukasa-sama." A steward who came along with him to the competition walks up to his master and bows with his phone being held right in front of him. Someone like his instincts were talking to him, he takes his phone and goes to his voice mail.

""Hey Eishi, it's me, Rei. When are you coming back? I'll make some food for you when you do. Or maybe you already ate before hearing this voicemail? Either way, I'll make something. How about we try and make it romantic? But that plan already failed since I don't have anything to dress up in. I'll ask the head steward when your coming back. Let's eat in my room, kay? I--in my room... Y--you know what? Just... just co--come home when you can."

Tsukasa can feel his heart being torn into pieces. Hearing Rei's monotone voice in the beginning, it slowly begins to break at the near end. Feeling his heart breaking painfully, he turns to the old steward. "Get the car ready." Squeezing his way through the dense crowd of reporters, he tries hos best to make his way back.