Daddy’s Off-Limits Best Friend

My dad’s best friend, who happens to be my enemy, is also the judge in a cooking competition I have to win.

After going to culinary school to fine tune my skills as a chef, I’m almost ready to buy space to open my own place.

And it wasn’t an easy road getting here.

My teacher overly criticized every meal I prepared to the extent I wish he’d choke on his words.

Now he’s judging a cooking competition I’m sure to lose if he has anything to say about it.

And he tells me how he could never hate his best friend’s daughter.

Yet, I’m fantasizing about running my hands through his hair and tracing my fingers up and down his bulging bicep.

He draws me in close to his chest and his lips cover mine in the most tender kiss.

It melts me like butter.

But if there’s even a hint of fraternizing with a judge, I could be disqualified from the competition.

And now I may have bitten off more than I can chew.