It had been a while since Darren visited the Cottage. Nevertheless, the restaurant had remained successful and only grown bigger during his time away struggling with the facing of business and politics.
In the busy night streets of Mauravard, Castle Cottage stood proud like a fragment of an age long past. The castle-like design was more fascinating at this time with the stony walls and torchlit arches glowing against the soft evening sky.
Designed to mirror a medieval keep with warm elegance, the restaurant bore no resemblance to what it once was— the run-down outdoor eatery that was about to be dissipated by the other bigger companies around it.
Darren Steele had changed that.
He had seen the bones beneath the rot, the potential beyond the dust. And after the deal with Arnold Castle, the restaurant had risen to be on the top ten list in all of Los Angeles in only a few months.
