"Bring Cain to me, right now!"
Damien ordered his men after he moved away from the compartment Alex and the group were sitting in.
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.
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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