CHAPTER 8: DINNER
Aaron sat at the dining table while Iris took the dishes out of the kitchen.
Iris had always been the one making food, so he wasn't surprised when he heard that she made dinner.
What surprised him was the fact of what she had made. There were many things on the table, usually she would make 2 to 3 dishes but today it was much more than that.
Moreover, the smell of the food was different, in a good different it was watering his mouth just by seeing it. Iris had always been the one that could make delicious food but her presentation would not be good. This time not only was her presentation good even her food was.
Moreover, he had never seen them he did not know how she made them or if was she just experimenting and now making him the taster.
Aaron glanced at her only to meet with her gaze that was looking at him as if saying "Eat".
Even though he did not know what they were just the fact that they were made by his precious sister made him pick his spoon to eat.
The first thing he took was what Iris introduced as cheese tuiles, delicate gruyere tuiles with deep cheese flavor, accompanied by a pair of superb puff pastry fingers topped with black olive and Parmesan. As soon as he ate it his eyes widened, it was delicious, no, even that was an understatement, it was out of the world.
Then he picked another dish it was steelhead trout roe. It was an exotic dish with a sauce of cured grapefruit and spices.
Next, he ate petit pois. It had targets of wild mushrooms with black truffles.
There were a few more dishes he ate and was surprised by each and every one of them.
Aaron had guessed right it was indeed something Iris created but she did this in her previous life. She had never come to the city she was currently in thus, she had never tried making any local food.
Moreover, she did not know what Aaron would like thus she made food of a lot of different flavors however there was not much in the house so she could only make the simplest things.
As an underworld queen, she could do many things, cooking was just one of them. Moreover, whenever she tried to do something seriously it would always be at a level that astonished others.
Aaron looked at her
"Where did you get this food"
It was too tasty he could not believe that she had made it, after all, just a month ago her cooking was completely different.
Iris already knew that he would ask something like that so she was already prepared.
"It's something famous in the capital, since brother did not come to visit me at the hospital, I got bored so I decided to pass my time researching some new recipes so that when I get home I could make brother some delicious food. How is it? Do you like it?".
This was a very good answer by making him remember how he did not visit her, it was making him feel guilty. By saying she researched those recipes only because she wanted to make them for him it would show that she missed him and thought of him. Asking him how it was and if he liked it, showed her concern and how important his opinions were to her. This way she had made him forget about his initial question and led him to another topic.
This was also one of the skills a killing God like her should have.
And just as expected he softened "En! Like it as long as you make it, brother would like it"
Not expecting such an answer Iris got touched he really loved her, didn't he?
"That's good"
He asked no more questions and ate with Iris while talking about his life at university.