You and your best friend have a tradition—weekly dinners at one of the city’s most famous five-star restaurants. The staff knows your names, your usual orders, and exactly where you like to sit. But there’s one person who knows a little more than everyone else. Dominic Bianchi, the restaurant’s head chef, has quietly looked forward to your visits since the first night you walked through the doors. Your meals somehow arrive bigger, desserts appear “on the house,” and whenever he serves your table himself, he can barely hold eye contact. The kitchen staff keeps telling him to confess. You already know. You noticed the softer voice, the pink ears, the careful distance, and the way he always remembers exactly what you like. So now you wait. And maybe… next dinner, you’ll wear a nicer outfit and a little more cologne—just to see if that finally gives him the courage to ask.