The City Held Its Silence byIrel Knx 74

74 This restaurant is a sinking ship 

JASMINE’S POV 1 

The following day Louis had Tony taken to school with one of his drivers. I was glad not to have to do it myself, but it also felt weird not to have to do something you were so used to doing. Louis‘ maids had also helped Tony prepare for school. It felt nice not having to worry about the maids working against you. I kissed him goodbye before 

Louis and I met in the foyer of his apartment. We were both dressed for work. He wore fine exquisite suit that was well–tailored for his body. 

I realised I was just staring at him. However, but so was he as our eyes met after staring 

each other down. 

Louis blinked as if snapping out of his daze. We hadn’t met prior to this moment. He’d already had breakfast by the time Tony and I went to eat. 

“How are you feeling?” he asked me as he drew closer to me. 

“I’m feeling better thanks,” I replied in a small voice as I looked up at him. 

I then noticed there were two intimidating men standing behind him. 

“Good. There’s something I want to tell you,” he then said to me. “Since you going to work. I need to make sure you’ll be safe as I promised.” 

insist on 

The two men behind him then stepped forward. 

“Meet Klyne and Harry,” Louis then introduced the men. “They’ll be watching over you,” he told me. 

My eyebrows furrowed in confusion as I wondered how that was going to work. Were they going to follow me around the restaurant? 

“Don’t look so worried,” Louis said noticing my expression. “It’s not like they’ll be right behind you as you work. Their job is to blend in as they protects you. You won’t even notice they are there,” he explained. 

That sounded interesting.“Alright,” I accepted. 

“Well then shall we go?” he asked me. 

“Together?” I asked him. 

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“What you want to walk or to have your own private car?” he asked me 

“No,” I responded I could never be that entitled. “I just didn’t–well, anyway what if we’re seen by someone from the restaurant?” 

“They wouldn’t know it’s me,” he responded. “Lots of people have black sedans. They’ll just assume you have a rich boyfriend or something” he joked. 

I rolled my eyes at his joke. 

He then led the way as we went to get in the car that was waiting for us by the entrance driveway of the apartment building. 

“You mentioned that you wanted to continue working because you want to do perhaps you could at least tell me for how long you intend to 

“Not long, hopefully,” I said to him. “The next two weeks.” I gave him a vague time frame. 

“Mmhmm,” he responded. 

Today I planned to begin executing my plan to bring down Andrew Gatwick. Hopefully, I would be able to get all the evidence quickly and expose me. 

Louis dropped me off at the place he’d picked me from the first time we met at the restaurant. He informed me that he’d have me picked up when I was done but he’d still be at work so I’d see him at his apartment later. He also told me Tony would be picked from school and sent home as well. After exchanging our goodbyes I made my way to his restaurant. 

Behind me was Kyle, the bodyguard he’d assigned to me. I wondered how this was going to work since Louis assured me I would notice his presence. I guess I was about to find out. 

Upon clocking in for my shift as usual I did breakfast service and then we began to prepare for lunch service. Luckily Megan and Mike were present so I could inform them of my plan. 

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It was lunch service I was in the kitchen waiting for my orders when Josh suddenly came into the kitchen with a plate full of food. Indicating it must have been sent back. 

“Whats wrong with that plate?” the manager asked as Josh placed on the service table. 

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“The customer says the food doesn’t taste great, and has a weird aftertaste,” Josh explained. 

“Yeah well no surprise there considering that’s one of the worst meals on the menu,” the head chef said as he went to see the plate. “It’s one where most of the crap ingredients we have are used to make it. Most of them being canned or frozen.” 

“It just doesn’t taste the same as it used to,” a sous chef chimed in as well. 

I looked at the dish which looked like a Mediterranean salad–style dish. 

“I know the budget has been cut short but honestly I never imagined it would be to the point of using these crap ingredients?!” the head chef said as he turned to the manager. “I love what I do, I love working here. I’ve been here since the previous owners were the same as you. I would hate to see this place here fail because we’re producing poor quality like this. You’re killing me Michael,” he said. 

“Colton, you know I feel exactly the same way. Unfortunately, there’s not much I can do about it,” the manager replied to the head chef. “This is what the higher–ups are making us work with.” 

He then turned to Josh. 

“Tell the customer you’re sorry and ask them if there’s anything else they want to order to order?” the manager told him. 

Josh accepted and returned back to the dinning area. 

The head chef shrugged his shoulders. As he walked off back into the kitchen. “This restaurant is a slow–sinking ship! Unbelievable.” 

The chefs sounded so passionate about their work. I thought to myself. It made me feel awful that this restaurant was going to close down soon. I realised that that meant all of the garden house employees would be without work and they technically had no idea. 

I recalled when I told Megan and Mike about it they just knew leadership changed but they weren’t aware that the restaurant was intentionally being sabotaged and going to be shut down in the future. 

That was a major downside of a company being bought out to remove competition. The livelihoods of all the employees would be affected. Sure they could find another job but that was a lot of work. Hundreds of people all losing their jobs at the same time