Grocery

While waiting for Stella, with Dario following her behind pushing a grocery cart, both of them are choosing what to buy. She would sometimes stop and look at Dario who was surrounded by women asking his number and flirting with him.

She didn't mind him and just looked at the detergents in her hands, unable to choose what she likes. Yes, she will buy a detergent because she is planning to wash her own clothes. No one can stop her.

"Lunie!"

She traced where Stella was calling her and saw her hustling to come through the bunch of girls flirting with her butler. She immediately smiled as she almost did not recognize her because of her dyed hair in rose gold and she cut it short.

She walks to her, grabs her reaching hand and pulls her out from the bunch of Dario's girls and Stella directly wrapped her arms around her neck.

"My baby Lunie, you are still so beautiful and stunning. I am so happy that you gained weight from eating meat." She kissed her cheek and touched it.

"Your skin is so soft, Lunie." She touched her lips with her thumb.

"Oh, your lips are still virgin?" She took a smack on her lips.

"I am your guardian, that's mine." She chuckled as she grabbed her waist and walked to where she was standing a while ago.

She shook her head in disbelief. This woman, how did they become friends?

"What are you gonna do with a detergent? Don't tell me you came back to wash clothes?” Stella looked at her in disbelief and then shook her head.

"No fucking way, Lunie. I won't let you do that." Stella pulled her away from the groceries but Luna stopped midways to check for her valet.

Good thing, Dario was looking at her too, well not to her, but to her best friend.

"Angel..." She heard from Stella who was mesmerized by her valet's handsome face, again, she knows.

Dario excused himself to the girls and walked towards them, making Stella shocked because an angel approached them.

"Stella is here, we will leave the groceries first." She commanded and pulled Stella's hand who was staring at his butler's lower abdomen.

"What the fuck, Lunie? Do you know him? Who is he? Don't tell me he is your boyfriend from abroad?" Stella was struggling from Luna's hand that is controlling her head not to turn around their back because she knows that he will look at him.

"He's my butler."

"Hell what? How many handsome butlers do you have, Lunie? And where was that butler with a big d*ck back then?"

Luna grunted knowing that Dario is listening to them and she knows that he is chuckling now especially that Stella did not forget him that day.

"And this another butler has even... bigger bird-

"Stella." She warned and Stella got silenced.

"Okay, I will behave as long as you introduce me to him." Stella stopped walking so she did.

Luna sighed as she turned back to Dario as well as Stella. She shook her head after seeing Dario's ear to ear smile, excitement drawn into his face.

"Stella, meet my butler Havier Dario Villaruel Savage." She looked at Stella's almost heart-shaped eyes staring at her butler.

"Dario, this is Stella Haughens, my best friend."

She let out a heavy sigh after seeing them shake hands like no tomorrow.

"Hola, Dario, you are a good fuck."

Her jaw dropped from Stella's introduction. What the hell?

"Hi, I've been looking forward to fuck you."

She slapped her forehead after hearing the worst introduction she has ever witnessed in her life. These two... these two are unbelievable...

"I'll be glad to give you the best sex-

She cut Stella by pulling her hand and walking away.

"I am really going to cut off your tongue Stella." She threatened but it's no use to Stella who just chuckled because she knows that it was just a warning and she is disciplining her.

Stella brought her to anywhere in the shopping mall, from branded clothing to cosmetics, to other things she needs in her room. This is why she invited Stella. She knows what she needs more than herself.

Sometimes she would catch Stella exchanging eyes to Dario, making her grimace. And all she did is to stay between them because it looks like they are fucking while staring at each other.

They didn't buy much since her room will be designed so here they are, eating in an expensive restaurant. Dario was in another spot because he said it is rude to eat with his Queen so she insisted him to have his own.

"I am so turned on with your butler, Lunie. I want to have him tonight.” Stella giggled taking a look at Dario on the other table.

"He won't touch you."

"What? Why?" Stella was shocked from what she heard.

"That's unfair, Lunie." She pouted.

"Should I plead you to change your mind? Or are you hiding something from me, Lunie?" Now she frowned and sat attentively. And Luna knows what is coming.

"Now that we are there, what happened in that creepy castle? Like what did you do? Why do you have a black card with unlimited money with you?" She was looking at her eyes and wouldn't let her get away from it.

"And what the fuck, Lunie? Why do you own a Rolls Royce Swept hail? That is fucking 13 Million dollars! And all your clothes are tailored? Even your heels are worth twice my monthly revenue in GND. Tell me, Lunie. What's going on?"

With Stella's state of mind, she knows she cannot run away from answering it. And she can't lie to this woman.

"My family was in debt with the owner of the castle. I was sent to be there."

"Then who's this owner?"

She stiffened as she remembered his full name. That name she once read and has never heard from him. Now, her mind was occupied by him again and she's missing Pyrenees already.

"Mondriguero...

It was owned by Señor Mondriguero." She mumbled, stopping her tears to flow, reminiscing how she served him and enjoyed being there.

She doesn't know now, she couldn't feel at ease just by imagining him being alone in his dark room without anyone to talk to.

"Mondriguero? Are you sure, Lunie? You're gonna be kidding me!" Stella's hand was covering her mouth from gasping and then she motioned her fingers to come closer to her so she did.

"Señor Mondriguero is an old ugly fat businessman!" She half whispered and shouted.

"He is crazy rich but he is ruthless, Lunie!" They went back to formal sitting after that.

It doesn't feel good to hear that the man who caused her freedom has this image that everyone believes. It doesn't feel good. It's annoying.

"That's just a rumor, Stella." She drank the strawberry wine beside her.

And I want to be with him.

"He is not ruthless. He is not wicked. He is not old. He is not ugly."

Now she wanted to get drunk with the thought of him. If she could do that, two people would stop her. The view of the castle appeared in her mind and she could only think of how she had a good time there.

All of the women who went there were eager to leave and escape. All of them were afraid of the castle. They did not make it out alive because they simply do not obey. But her? She wasn't even happy about leaving the castle! Yes, she made it out alive, she was the first one to make it out alive but she doesn't like it!

"Oh really? Well, that's just a rumor and I don't believe it either. But," Stella hummed.

"They are saying that girls don't go back after going in there? And those who go out from it become mentally disable? Was that a legend? Or truth?" Stella was examining her eyes and Luna knew what that look was.

And this red dot, means a difficult situation because she cannot tell it to her. These questions should be disclosed to her best friend.

"Don't you find the castle creepy at all?"” She purposely asked to divert her attention. This is her only method when Stella is investigating her and it works.

"I don't find it creepy especially when I see that handsome man with a big bird. He seems nice. But I like your Dario more. He is an angel!" Stella clapped her hands and glanced at her valet who's been busy talking with a lady now since when he got a girl there already? Unbelievable.

"Look at those reddish thin lips perfect for kissing all night. His red hair is so natural that suits his brown eyes, and I noticed that his pupils didn't match size, so he is anisocoria?" Her eyes went down somewhere.

"Oh oh- that thing is made for whole night fucking."

She shook her head not minding Stella's elaboration of how good it would be if Dario will have sex with her. What does she expect from Stella Haughens? Sex and sex. That's her life.

"Hey, Lunie." Stella called for attention after fantasizing about her butler's body.

She hummed devouring her meal.

"I once saw your home being constructed. I wanted to ask about your things to save them but it was completely ravaged. I wanna kill your fucking sister."

So her sister was the one who touched all her things?

"It's okay."

And with that, Stella grunted. She was more annoyed than her.

"If I can only crumple that face of hers"

She just shook her head and they talked about what happened to Stella when she was not working in her Good Night's Drink.

"Anyway, what will you do now? Will you go back to GND? The decision's yours to make."

She had been thinking about it though. Will she come back to work in Stella's bar? Would Dario let her? She has black card with unlimited money. She has a home, a Rolls Royce Swept ail, and diamond accessories given by the divorce.

She sighed, and didn't have any idea what to do after leaving the palace.

"Lunie, I won't force you to work. If you ask me what you wanna do, you try working in GND while you're looking for another job. And if you're bored in GND, the decision's still yours, my baby."

She hummed and nodded from Stella's suggestions. Whenever Stella is serious, she means what she is saying. She is Stella, her best friend since high school.