Chapter 26 Kate was feeling a little high as she left the Red Dining Room and returned to the Great Hall. The applause from the world leaders and their spouses had not been perfunctory. And Irene Watson’s pleased smile spoke volumes. Kate had always loved to cook since before she could remember. She’d wandered away from it for the five years of work in the Secret Service—she still didn’t know what that aberration had been about. Then shortly after her return to the networks, her parents had died and she’d taken over the helm. She’d hired managers for the other stations, good ones so she only heard from them at the quarterly meetings. But Cooks was all hers. Most people just thought of her as the executive who kept hosting shows to promote her own network. Few understood that it was th