I'm on FIRE!

First part of chapter 3 of The Art of Love and Cooking has just been sent to beta reading! Yaaaaay!! I feel super relieved right now; I'll try to write the next two parts as fast as possible -- I'm on a roll! They will be cake compared to that first part, though -- that bitch made me die a thousand deaths, but I ended up prevailing, muahahaha!

Below the cut you'll find the first -- unbeta'd, which means there might be some grammar mistakes -- paragraph of the chapter that you can take as a preview cookie for what's coming, just to say sorry for the long wait and that this fic isn't dead; it's just that I'm horribly slow (and, yeah, I got slightly sidetracked by Sherlock too). Thank you all for your encouraging comments, they've been a great help to me! <3

By the way, there will be only three more chapters to this fic, and the next ones won't be as monstrous as this third chapter, so bear with me, hopefully the wait won't last for months again.

Here we go, preview cookie:

( So raise your glass for me )