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The waiters in the room looked at each other.

They could tell that their boss was angry just by looking at his eyes, and they knew better than to pin an angry bull.

One of them nodded his head, accepting the task of answering their boss.

The guy took a deep breath before he moved towards Damien and bowed his head.

"Cain left a while ago saying that he had some problem at his home, Sir."

"And you guys just let him go without even asking me?!?!" Damien exclaimed in disbelief.

The guy who had stepped forward coiled back as he heard his boss\'s words, but he still answered.

"He said that it was very important and he had already asked you," The guy replied fearfully.

All of the chefs and waiters already knew what their boss was going to say now, they had already guessed that Cain made a mistake and he was just running away.

"And none of you all thought of confirming that with me?!" Damien shouted before he started taking long breaths to calm himself down.

\'Blaming them over something that had already happened won\'t get me anywhere, so let\'s think of what to do now,\' Damien thought inwardly as he took a deep breath.

"You," Damien pointed at a guy who was standing in the end.

The guy moved forward.

"Jake, Sir." The guy, Jake, introduced himself.

"I know, and you live close to Cain, right?" Damien waved his hand as he spoke.

"Yes, Sir," Jake replied with his back straightened.

"Take three people from here and bring Cain back here before 30 minutes, whether you use force or love it\'s up to you, but I want him here in 30 minutes, not a minute late."

Damien spoke as he looked into Jake\'s eyes with an expression that said that he wouldn\'t be taking a no for an answer.

"…. Yes, Sir," Jake replied in a low voice.

"I didn\'t hear you," Damien growled.

"Yes, Sir!!" Jake quickly exclaimed loudly.

"Good, now go," Damien waved his hand as if shooing him away.

However, Jake just like everyone else in the room was thinking just one thing.

\'What did you do, Cain?\'

Damien who was done with the matter of Cain, now turned toward another guy and spoke.

"Jamial, go bring the product S."

His words won\'t have a special meaning for anyone who doesn\'t work here but for those who work here, it was like a thunderbolt striking them.

"P-p-product S, Sir?" Jamial, the guy whom Damien ordered to bring the product S, asked unsurely.

He was doubting whether he heard it right or not.

"Do you have a bad ear, Jamial?" Damien\'s eyes turned sharp as he asked.

"N-no, Sir," Jamial replied.

"Then I don\'t need to repeat myself for you, do I?" Damien asked he looked away from Jamial and moved toward his seat.

"No, Sir!" Jamial answered.

"Then go bring what I asked for.

"Yes, Sir!" Jamial ran to do what he was asked for.

\'Let\'s see what you think of my best product,\' Damien spoke inwardly.

Alex\'s comment was still ringing in his head.

He was grateful to Alex, rightfully so as Alex had saved his life, but that only made him want to prove his skills and his father\'s blood and sweat to Alex.

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Damien brought the pastry he called product S along with him as he was right behind the waiter who was pushing the trolly.

He could see Alex, Alice, and Ann looking at him but didn\'t know why he felt some kind of malice hidden in Alice and Ann\'s eyes.

But he couldn\'t tell for sure as it was just his feeling so he ignored it, feelings were not always right, after all.

"This here is the best dish I ever created, it was stored in a cold storage for some very very special occasion, but I want you to taste it."

Damien spoke as soon as the waiter placed the plate with a lid over it in front of Alex, Alice, and Ann.

"Why?" Alex asked a simple one-word question, but Damien knew what Alex meant.

"I don\'t want a customer of mine to go away unsatisfied by my creation, not when I came to respect that guest of mine," Damien spoke and for the first time smiled as well.

Alex looked at Damien for a while before he nodded his head.

"Please," Damien gestured for them to dig in as the waiters removed the lids from the plates.

*Gasp* X2

Alice and Ann gasped as they saw the pastry.

It would be bad to call it a pastry as they would prefer to call it a piece of art.

It was a golden pastry with black or dark brown designs over it. The pastry had some intricate letters over it that seemed to be some old language.

The golden color and the sharp edges, along with the intricate design gave the pastry an ancient royal piece of art.

Even Alex raised his brow as he found the piece quite attractive and eye-catching.

Alex picked up the spoon and elegantly took a bite of the pastry.

"Oh…\' Alex\'s eyes brightened as he tasted it.

\'This one is better, at least 10 times better than the one I ate before,\' Alex evaluated the pastry inwardly.

Damien who could see the reaction of Alex smiled as he knew that Alex was enjoying it.

Alice and Ann were slowly eating each bite as they closed their eyes to savor the last bit of the sweetness the pastry could give, and Damien just stood there proudly.

What more could an artist ask than his art being praised?

"This is good, really good, many things that were missing in the last one are not missing in this one," Alex finally spoke, and Damien just lifted his nose higher.

"Of course, it is the result of my hard work and my father\'s recipe, I had to give a week of my time just to bake enough for 10 people to eat," Damien spoke with pride in his eyes, but Alex wasn\'t done with his words.

"But I would like you to read this," Alex spoke as he passed the piece of napkin that he was writing on earlier to Damien.

Damien took the piece of napkin with confusion visible on his face.

\'What is it?\' He wondered, but then he saw something written on the napkin.

Just as he read the first line, his eyes widened in surprise and realization.

He started muttering something to himself as he kept reading it.

It took a while to come out of his thoughts as he snapped his head toward Alex and asked in a bewildered tone.

"How?"

"I don\'t like to brag, but I do know a thing or two about cooking, and when I ate your dishes, I could tell what was missing from the start.

So, I decided to write it down and hand it over to you as compensation for the fact that I blamed you for something you didn\'t do."

Alex replied to Damien, and Damien was stunned for a second before he smiled.

\'I knew I didn\'t judge him incorrectly; he really is someone with the qualities of a hero,\' Damien spoke inwardly before he bowed his chubby body to Alex.

"Thank you for your guidance," Damien spoke in gratitude.

"It\'s all right, no need to worry about it," Alex just waved his hand.

"No, it is not all right, let me-" Damien was about to say something but for the fourth time today his words were cut again.

"Hey, you took out that thing?!?!?!"

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