Once the two chefs had left, Cixi looked at the dining cart filled with food platters. The food smelled delicious, making her stomach growl. She immediately placed her hand on her belly, feeling embarrassed.
"We need to get you to eat something." Saying that, Cassian rose from the sofa, and in two strides, he reached the cart and lifted all the cloches from the food platters.
The aroma instantly hit Cixi's nostrils before she could prepare for it. Rosemary, garlic butter, and seared meat. Warm bread.
Cassian lifted one of the porcelain plates from the stack and began to put each item from the platters onto the plate.
He lifted the silver dome off the lamb chops and placed two on her plate, glistening with garlic butter. He spooned a generous mound of truffle risotto beside them. He added a piece of the pan-seared salmon, a heap of roasted vegetables, and tore a piece of fresh bread from the loaf with his bare hands before setting it on the edge of the plate.
