Demi is a fast learner and she did as what her father taught her, getting all the details. He mastered chopping and he followed and put salt on it and do the same process. They took out the lobster from the boiling water and Dmitri demonstrate them on how to remove the meat out from the shells perfectly.

Putting it on the plastic chopping board and they clapped their hands.

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Demi is a fast learner and him too. Just following the instructions would make it easier.

Demi started cooking her sauce and Dmitri have his way. He just learned from Dmitri on how to make a sweet-spicy sauce and he followed the steps and make his sauce recipe.

"That's perfect Demi and Christian."

"I think I got it. Should I also make another set of lobster tomorrow, Dad?" Andre asked.

"Yes, buddy. Do it. Have you thought of your recipe of sauce?"

"Yes, I do!" Andre said excitedly.

"I am super hungry can we finish this?" She asked.

"I will judge what the two of you did. Since you too are my oldest children."

"I am not old, he's old," Demi complained. Dmitri patted her head. "Your hands smelled like fish." She pushed it away. "I have to wash my hair, again."

"Why do have to wash your hair again? Just someone shit on it?" Rhys and Raiden high-five and she glared at them.

"You guys stop!" Bea threw two balls on each head of the twins.

They showed their finished product and Dmitri had the first taste first and he nodded.

"I like the sour and sweetness mixed with spiciness in your sauce. The lobster is perfectly cooked." Dmitri said as he criticized her lobster and sauce. Then he looked at Christian's plating. "Nice plating," he said.

"Thank you, Sir."

"But the first I have to taste it." He told. He sipped on the lemonade that his wife prepared and then he took the claw part and dipped it on his sauce. He chewed it carefully and make sure that he had a taste of it. "Hmm, this is extraordinary." He told. "You should start your restaurant."

"Ah—I don't think so."

"What? You want to just spend your life serving on us?"

"That's what I promised."

Dmitri shrugged.

"If you say so."

"I could get him as a manager of my restaurant," Andre said. Dmitri looked at him. "You are giving me the restaurant, right?"

"Maybe." He shrugged.

"What? You aren't giving it to me?" Andre makes puppy eyes and Dmitri only glanced at him. "Why doesn't it work for you? Whenever Demi would do it, you'll eventually—"

"She's a girl," Dmitri told and Agatha laughed and hugged his son.

"I'll give you a spot," Agatha told. "When you reach eighteen, you should learn how to manage it."

"Damn, I need to study more!"

Christian like the family interaction that he never had. Well, probably if her mother is alive, he wouldn't feel the same way that these boys are feeling. His mother ignored him a lot. When he's an infant, he had his Wet Nurse who fed him from her milk although he wasn't his son. It happened to them. Rich people and it was the woman who raised him and care for him. Her baby died so she took the job as a Wet Nurse.

Their dinner has been served and he enjoyed their company laughing and teasing each other. Christian looked at the side where Hazel is watching him from afar. She walked away and he knew to himself that Hazel only like him because of his body.

After their dinner, they went on karaoke and they are good singers. But he never heard Demi and Zendaya sings so he watched as the twins gave the microphone to her. She already chose her song and then she started singing Cardigan of Taylor Swift. It's a song from 2020 and they waved their hands singing along with her.

Her voice is soothing. Like she's singing a lullaby to a baby. Then he looked at Dean, the youngest child of their family and he yawned while clapping his hands.

"Okay, today I'll let you drink champagne or wine! Except for the ages under twelve!"

They cheered and hugged Dmitri. Their parents only laughed letting them taste it. Demi is grinning. That girl would love it.

He drank with them and with Dmitri who is more like his father and like he's the firstborn just like what he said a while ago while they are making some lobster. He would never betray them. Dmitri had given him a second chance.

The boys are laughing out loud in the room where they are gathered. There are already air mattresses and pillows for them. It's a family room and he will be sleeping in the available space. But they are having fun and Dmitri and Agatha went to their room with their youngest son.

He watched as Kale poured more and more until they are drunk. Demi is just on the corner who kept on laughing and she's flushed. He's cute and the same with Bea who is laughing over the twins. He helped the boys to get on their bed and put a blanket over them.

Demi stood and leaned on the wall and she even forgot her slippers as she went to the bathroom. He escorted her and then he also escorted Bea after Demi. Demi is still finishing the champagnes and then Bea went to sleep.

He sat beside Demi and helped her.

"So, why do you want to drink?" He asked her.

"I am making a novel and I need to feel how to be drunk."

"Have you throw-up?"

"Not yet but my acid is building up." She told.

"Hmm, I should get you water." He stood and she reached his shirt and pulled him down. He sat down beside her.

"To be the truth, I don't want to see you." She said. Christian frowned.

"Okay. Because I am a Lebedov?"

"No, being a Lebedov doesn't make me care." She said truthfully.

"What makes you don't want to see me?" He asked and patted her head. She's just adorable as a baby sister to him.

"Well," She gulped another champagne. "I don't want to say it." She shook her head.

"Why not?" He chuckled.

She shook her head and shuddered like she remembers something awful.

"Wow, is it that awful?" He asked. She nodded and flushed. She covered her mouth after remembering it.

"Take me to the bathroom." She said. He pulled her up gently and take her to the bathroom and she started puking. He gathered her hair and patted her back. He wasn't disgusted. It happens and then she washed her mouth and sighed. "That feels good."

"I'll get you water." He escorted her to the sofa, and he went to the fridge to pull a bottle of water. She drank and sighed. He sat beside her. "So, are you going to tell me."

"I saw you and Hazel in your room. We knock but somehow your room door is wide open."

He froze from what she said.

"I am too young to watch porn!" She hissed. He covered her mouth and looked at others who are already sleeping.

"What else did you see?" He asked.

"Just her on top of you and both of you are naked, nothing else." She said bluntly. "And I heard the two of you. Well, I exited before Rhys could see the two of you."

"Oh," he said coolly.

"Yeah, skinny dipping is completely not good with few people around."

"Well, it's just between us, right?"

She shrugged.

"It's my first time." He confessed. She looked at him.

"So, there's no other girl before her?"

"None. I focused on study and training."

"Oh." She nodded and leaned on the sofa and her eyes are drowsy.

"Do you want to sleep now?"

"Yeah!" She stood and stepped forward, but she felt, and Christian caught her. She put her on the space beside Rhys and she snuggled to her cousin.

He increased the air conditioner and he put a fluffy blanket over her. He checked the whole area and then he takes a shower and he checked around. Bea sat up from her space took her pillow and blanket and she occupies the sofa. Kale lay flat on the mattress occupying the space and then he looked at Demi's spot.

He took a pillow and blanket and then he lay beside her. She's snuggled to her cousin and then he gently turned to her and admired the twins and Demi. They are adorable. He wondered if ever he got siblings.

He needed to stop staring at her. He promised to protect them and not to fall in love with one of the heiresses. He will set up a boundary at this moment.

He stared at the ceiling as he reminisces the words that Hazel's father said.

"Would that boy feed you and give you luxury clothes? Would he even give your children the toys that they wanted and better education?" It lingers in his mind.

"I can't." He mumbled. Well, he'll just keep their sex moment as a memory.