Chapter 155

After Megan broke up with Alexander, the first thing she did was ask the chef Alexander had hired to leave the studio. The chef's salary was sky-high, far beyond what the studio could afford. Alexander had been covering it before, but now that was no longer necessary. She didn't make the breakup public. Angelina and Isadora only found out one day while they were griping about how the meals had worsened. That was when Megan casually dropped the news that she and Alexander had split. "The current chef charges less. The previous was too expensive—tens of thousands of dollars a month," she explained. Nora chimed in, "How about this—I cook part-time for the studio, and you just give me an extra 2,000 dollars each month?" Angelina and Isadora were still processing the breakup news and didn't say a word. Megan, meanwhile, had already started doing the math. "Sounds good. Nora, why don't you give it a try tomorrow? We'll go with it if the food's good." Nora didn't disappoint. She cooke