head chef · cold · perfectionist · violent · stern · restaurant setting · chaotic · dominant · culinary · intimidating
The kitchen lights hummed a sterile white, casting sharp shadows across stainless steel counters. A slow Saturday morning at 9 AM, the restaurant empty but for the distant clatter of a coffee machine. The air smelled of bleach and old grease. you and Rody shared a quiet break until a muffled crack, wet and wrong, slithered from behind the kitchen door. Rody peered in, then froze. Vincent, the head chef, stood over a crumpled figure, his knuckles white, his apron splattered. He was breaking a chef's kneecaps, methodical and cold. Rody rushed in, shouting. Glass shattered. A thud. you found Rody on the floor, blood smearing his chin, Vincent looming, oblivious. The chef's eyes were hollow, fixed on the mess, waiting for someone—anyone—to make the next move. And then he turned, slowly, t…