Business was doing so well Mario Fabizio (known as 'Fabby' by his friends ) had an extension built to his restaurant with space for another 50 tables making one hundred in all.
All being on account of the reputation he'd built with his quality food.
Regulars were coming back and back always complimenting the chef and trying to find out the secret if his ingredients, what made the delicacies so delicious and appealing, especially for the female fraternity who simply lavished the meals.
And the was word going around about their aphrodisiac effects on many returning couples who formerly were having problems with their relationships but no more! One couple, couldn't have children, that is until they started eating at Mario's and all that changed.
Mario hinted that maybe his truffles were responsible, having a known aphrodisiac quality, well that's what he suggested, but he was wily enough to realise that Louise mattered too, especially to the male fraternity - his brand new waitress of half Italian descent of course.
She was so outstanding in every way - she gave all the guys a glint in their eyes which seemed to give them a new stance in maybe tired relationships with spouses and the like.
With full stomachs and a vision of Louise they would return home with renewed zest which resolved many an ongoing problem and many a mattress creaked again as consequence.
Mario realised the sudden surge in customers eating in his restaurant was not entirely to the credit of his cooking, Oh no! - there was Louise's looks and her 'stunning' personality and besides which as Mario would say -licking his lips making a sound like the proverbial Meer cats in the insurance advert, she had the most perfect saddle imaginable, wearing her tight- as- tight jeans or black waitress dress -knowing just how to wiggle and sway to arouse the dormant urge of many an unsuspecting male, least his own.
Maria, his visiting sister, caught him intensely eyeing up Louise .through the gap between the swinging door which connected from the kitchen to the restaurant.
"Mario, what are you doing?" she quirked knowing full well what he was at.
He turned thoughtfully to her and replied that he had in mind a new sausage recipe.
"Oh! Yes, more like your toad and her ****.I know you, Fabby - but anyway Toad in the hole isn't very Italian.
"Oh! I don't know" he grinned ,his eyes sparkling, "Maybe Mario can give it that Italian flavour, it could even be a combined effort."
"If you're thinking what I'm thinking Fabby, no - and anyway she's not Italian
"Yes she is, her mother was born in Naples!"
Maria knew when Fabby got something in his mind nothing would shift it, she knew at the end of the day - and seeing the lust in her brother's eyes - he meant business, but maybe this girl Louise would not comply...
Soon Maria saw her brother take the new waitress into the back stock room.
Fifteen minutes later Louise showed her head, flushed and very ruffled with Mario following close behind - looking very happy muzzling her hind and whispering into her ear
"So you had your way with her?" quipped Maria later.
"Don't be so frigid, it was simply to discuss a promotion. and anyway, you are just my sister Not my keeper."
"Like giving her more money when she has only been here for a week, I am a partner in your business, remember!"
"You were keyhole spying weren't you, Maria? Anyway, its not that sort of promotion, I am talking new recipes, new delights for our loyal clientele."
"And how is Louise involved?"
"You can be there, you can assist in the preparation of Mario's new toad in the hole extravaganza.. Okay? I have agreed to pay Louise a cool fifty but it is truly a good investment."
But truly Fabby was an attractive guy who fired Louise's passion like it was love at first sight. She could not believe he was unattached and so very amenable - but discovered from his sister that his energy, until now, had been reserved for his business and nothing else, she being surprised about his obvious attraction to her.
Or was it maybe just because of her influence on his takings.
Louise was no pushover. She had come unstuck before - and it was not the money that enticed her, she wasn't like that, she simply adored him enough to want more!
But she was nobody's cheap doll, in the stock room he may have tried it on, but she resisted even though he was so romantic and persuasive.
But she knew he wouldn't stop there and secretly she hoped that he wouldn't. This guy had given her a new opening after her recent divorce to dick -head Jason, she'd left him for good, moved to a new flat on her own and was so fortunate to have seen the advertisement for the waitress on the restaurant door.
"Hope your sister hasn't got the wrong idea about me, Mario" she said preparing breakfast the following day.
"She .likes you" he replied trying to catch a bowl slipping off the edge of the able but failing miserably, or was that just an accident on purpose because she saw he was very engrossed down there.