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"Good afternoon, Lunieee!"

She was startled by Stella's greetings as Stella hugged her and found herself still sitting on the backseat, the car's door was opened and Dario was already outside, looking worried.

"Why the hell are you crying, my baby Lunie? Did your mother scold you?" Stella wiped her tears, worry consuming her.

"Or your sister bullied you? I'm gonna fucking kick her ass!"

Luna sobbed one more time and Stella wiped all her tears as she guided her to get out of the car.

"Park the car at the back, pretty boy." Stella commanded Dario and winked.

Dario on the other hand grinned as he watched Stella's sexy back until it disappeared in his sight and got inside the car to park it.

Stella made Luna sit in their private room and told her to stay there. She then made mocha for her. As soon as she came back to her, she sat beside her and caressed her back.

"What's wrong, Lunie?" Her voice was worried and she seemed not intending to play with her. Stella is serious.

Luna drank the mocha to relieve herself as Stella patiently waited for her.

But then she had work to do as a counter so as she saw Dario entering the place, she stood up and approached him.

"Can you make my baby Lunie feel better? Or at least talk to her, I've got some customers." She doesn't look like the bitchy Stella. She is now a concerned friend.

Dario nodded as he walked towards his milady. Since he couldn't afford to sit in front of her, he just stood at her back.

"Please forgive me if I stepped the boundaries, mi reina." It was a soft voice from Dario, the sound of guilt. He doesn't know that what he said a while ago would make his milady sad again. It breaks his heart. He doesn't want to see her like this.

He bent down his right knee as he bowed his head. "Please chop me off, milady." He was used to being chopped when he made mistakes but since his duty was transferred to his milady, fully and out of the castle, he wasn't punished frequently.

"I would rather be chopped than to see you like this, mi reina. I'm sorry." His voice was shaking like he made a huge problem to his milady. He can't take this.

Whenever he sees those gloomy- eyes of her milady, it is like his world is breaking apart. It's the death of him.

Luna stood up and looked at him, those eyes with authority.

"I want you to investigate everything, Dario. From my father's death, my life, and my mother's schemes."

As he sees the determination in his milady's eyes, he knows he is going to give his all to fulfill the obligation she gave him. And with that, he felt good and smiled.

"Sí, mí hermosa reina." He stood up with a wide smile on his face. If it would make his milady feel better, he will use his authority that he hasn’t used yet.

"I am going to work for a while, you do what you want."

Luna left him in that room and went to the locker to change. She undressed her coat and scarf, and wore a pearl brush apron, more like a uniform of Stella's resto. Since the place is warm inside, she doesn't need the coat to protect herself from the cold. Then she went to Stella.

"What can I do?" She asked Stella that made her grin as if she would devour her any second.

"Stop being creepy. Give me a bit of work."

And then Stella laughed as she arranged the ordered coffee into a tray with the other foods.

"Left's number 3. Right's number 6." Stella informed her.

She nodded and lifted the tray professionally with one hand and walked to table three.

"Mí lord, here are your macchiato and spicy meat with horta. Enjoy your meal." She smiled before walking to the table in the corner with two men.

"Here are your cappuccinos, mutton and devilled kidneys. Enjoy."

As soon as she started walking back to the counter, all eyes were on this angel-like woman in a sleek ponytail. Her blonde long curly hair matches her milk skin. Beside her eyes that are as beautiful as the moon, her ear to ear smile is the most capturing in her alluring beauty. Her earrings are glowing and her skin looks so smooth and soft. To add, her perfect curvy waist, perfectly round breast that shaped her sexy buttocks has always been another level of her beauty. She is a standard beauty and she's working as a server in this small workplace.

"Looks like I got a shot again." Stella winked at her as she saw the reaction that she had been looking forward to when her best friend was working for her.

Still as innocent as ever, she just smiled and put the tray to the counter and then a customer called a server. So here she comes to get the customers' orders.

As Luna went to the customer, someone spoke at Stella's back making her feel shivers all over her spine.

"Perdón, señorita."

Knowing whose voice was that, Stella turned his head and looked up to Dario who doesn't look like his usual smiling expression, he is serious. His lips aren't even moving sideways. And his eyes weren’t smiling either. This is scary...

totally the scary Dario she hasn't seen yet.

"May I request to lessen my lady's work?" Now he is back to his usual expression, the angel Dario, but not cocky.

"I don't know what will happen to your business if you exhaust my beautiful lady as soon as my King finds out that she is working with so much display. And I don't want to destroy the business of a beautiful lady with a sexy ass." He bowed down his head.

"Feel free to make me serve to cover mi lady, señorita."

Stella was shocked and flabbergasted. She did not expect that Dario would be this serious as her best friend's butler. She almost couldn't recognize the Dario she had known yesterday if it's not about his face. But with this kind of expression, she was in between confusion and making a decision.

She was confused about hearing this 'My King'. And she couldn't find any reason to decline him either. If Dario would be working in her resto, it's a good catch. Her customers were almost all men so with Dario around, girls would be berserk. But she was still confused about what he said because it is almost a threat.

"I... I will lessen her working hours for you, pretty boy." She raised her hands in defense. She was still shocked but chose to be herself.

"Stella."

She heard Luna's voice making her turn her back to Dario.

"Espresso- no mixture and Affogato." Luna informed her and then her hands worked.

"What are you doing there, Dario?" Luna asked, noticing Dario at Stella's back. And then she saw that grin in her butler's lips making her conclude what he is going to say.

"Making ways to smack a sexy ass, milady." He winked looking down to her best friend's butt.

She grunted. As expected of her butler. Another customer called a server, making Dario's smile fade. His eyes went sharp, his hands clenched.

"I'll go, milady."

Luna didn't even have a chance to speak and just found Dario passing by, like a wind as he walked towards the table who called for a serve. He didn't even see who talked but he found who it was!

"You need a spanking later, baby."

Terrified, Luna looked at Stella's threatening eyes, looking serious, with a scary smile. This only means one thing,

She found something strange.

Trouble. This is troublesome.

IT IS TEN in the afternoon, it is time to close Stella's mini resto. And here she is, standing in front of the sitting Luna, doomed and silent. Stella's arms were crossed and her right toes are stomping the floor like an expert investigator who will make a criminal confess. With Dario standing on Luna's back, Stella looked down to her best friend who cannot meet her eyes.

"First, who is this King?"

Luna gulped knowing that she couldn't lie to this woman. She looked at Dario first before sighing and spoke. If Stella just believed her back then, she wouldn't worry about telling her the whole story. But as of now, she will uncover it, slowly as she is still confused.

"He is my... ex... husband."

And that shocked Stella the fuck out, making her gasp and covered her open mouth.

Ex-husband...

She doesn't even have the chance to tell the world that he is her husband. She doesn't even know if they were officially or legally husband and wife. And they divorced not because of a failed marriage but...

But what? Why did he let her go?

"What the fuck?! You are married to that Mondriguero?" And now Stella is cupping her cheeks letting her see how shocked she is.

"Which Mondriguero? The Grandfather? The son? The father? The Nephew? The Grandson?"

"The bachelor." Dario answered, making Stella release her. And she exhaled in peace. But then she just realized what Dario said.

Bachelor?

"My King is a bachelor before he married milady."

She stiffened, heart racing fast. Shock engulfing her. What?

I thought... I wasn't his first wife?

If Luna was shocked, Stella was now looking at her with those threatening eyes and shaking her shoulders. She knows what is coming.

"Why didn't you tell me you got married? What the hell!"

She didn't speak. Well, they got married on paper and she just did her responsibility as a wife. But did she really... just pretend to be his wife? Didn't she love being there?

Love...

"This is your mother's scheme, am I right?"

Stella was talking but she was fazed by what she just realized.

"Your mother is pissing me off, Lunie. If she wasn't your mother I would really crumple her face."

Love...

I...

Love...