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sure. Word has gotten around about the review that was posted, and how someone had said on one of those social pages that the place had gone to hell. Will you post a retraction so we can stay open?” Sloan came into the kitchen with him and he told her what was going on. Or as much as he knew was going on. He asked for a computer, and she told him there was one in Hunter’s office he could use. It took him nearly ten minutes of the woman crying to figure out what she was talking about.
    “You see it?” He told her that he was reading it now and that he’d not written it. “It happened again after Kimber was fired, him being too drunk to make any kind of sense of what he was saying to us. I thought that if he was sober enough to stand up and yell at the staff then he could surely cook. But I guess I was wrong. And with this review, business dropped off to nearly nothing. Last night we had open tables all night long. And we always had a waiting list.”
    “So this Chef Hayes made dinner for this other critic and it wasn’t up to par. Invite him back. Have him tell the man he was having a bad night, that he’d just fired someone and the kitchen was getting their feet under them. This other person, Kimber…how does he fit into this?”
    The article had not mentioned the name, so he assumed that either the man was a lower cook or was off. Mrs. Stanton sobbed harder as she told him who Kimber was.
    “Kimber Gray was the woman who cooked your dinner that night you were there. We all knew it was her, and that was who we lied about for her to be fired. I told her that I’d make sure that everyone knew she’d done it because of Hayes being in his cups, but I didn’t. I…he threatened me and now…now we’re out of work too.” Lee looked up when Sloan came into the room with him. He wanted to tell her to stay put. Her body looked ready to explode, but as she had every time someone asked her, she told them she had never felt better.
    “I’m still sort of confused why you’re calling me. I mean, it was a fantastic meal, one of the best I’d had in a while. I tried to tell the owner that he should keep him…her on staff, but he seemed to think that I had lost my mind. Other than that, I’m not sure what you think I can do about your plight.”
    “Can you find her for us? If you can’t retract the review, then can you find her so we can try and stay open?” He asked how he was supposed to do that. “She’s there in the United States. I don’t know when she left here, but her apartment is empty of her things and there is no forwarding address that I can find. I want to…I need to tell her how sorry I am for what I did and see if she’ll come back.”
    Lee scrubbed his hand over his face. “Do you have any idea how big the United States is? Do you at least know what state she’s in? I don’t know if I can help you, but that would narrow it down.” She told him she had no idea. His wolf stirred along his skin then, and he wondered what had him so upset. Then he looked at the woman standing in the doorway and stood up. “I have to call you back.
    Lee was always nervous around Lady Clementine Mantle, less so when her granddaughter was around to act as a buffer. But Addie was working on a project, he’d been told, and hadn’t been able to get away. Lady Mantle came into the room and sat on the couch next to Sloan.
    “Hello, my dear. How are you and that lovely baby doing? I should think you are ready to have it.” Sloan laughed and told her not just yet. “Well, I’m here now so that I can be here for the event. And to see my estates. Did you know that Addie has hired two more people to work for her? Her business is growing well.”
    “It is. But I’m pretty sure you didn’t come here to talk to me about Addie. I’m assuming you need Lee.” Lady Mantle nodded and pinned him with her gaze. “Well, I’ll leave you to it. I have some things to set out for Cash to plant next week.”
    Lee wanted to beg