The Long-Silent Woman by My Side

Leo's cooking video goes viral only because his wife, Eva, ruins a plate of sweet and sour ribs. Then the comments change everything: viewers recognise her as Eva Burke, once a celebrated culinary star who vanished from the food world years ago, and they name her old partner, Ross Grey.

Searching, Leo finds "Eva & Ross's Table," a dormant account full of old videos where Eva fillets fish like a surgeon and smiles at Ross with a warmth Leo has never seen. In their kitchen she has always said flatly that she does not cook, even as his late father's bistro slides toward bankruptcy and he begs her for help. When he confronts her, she admits she promised her cooking to Ross alone and tells him the bistro was always going to fail.

Then a livestream shows Eva cooking beside Ross, tender with his young son. When Toby comes home in tears, saying the other children claim his mother has a new baby and no longer wants him, Leo is left with a family already breaking apart.