Demi is busy with the crossword puzzle while chilling out in the café waiting for her friends to arrive. The café is empty since her last subject has been canceled. Then, with the body figure, height, and smell of perfume, she knew exactly who it was.

"Dad?" She mumbled.

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"Hey, there princess."

"So, how do you like your new bodyguard?"

"Who?" Demi looked up at him. Then she looked at the hardworking Christian. "Why, dad?" she asked.

"Why what?" He asked back as Christian served them ice-tea. He sipped on his iced tea with his eyes on her. Then, she cocked her head to Christian.

"Why is he working in the café?"

"He needs money."

"He had lots of money." She told him.

"Nope." Dmitri shook his head. "All of his funds have been depositing to donations that we are holding."

Demi looked at the hardworking guy.

"And her tuition in here?"

"Free."

"Expenses?"

"I provided some and he's staying in the dorm and wherever he wants to stay, I also provided it for him."

"It's not about that." She sipped on her iced tea.

"What about it?"

Demi exhaled and shrugged.

"I don't know your ways."

"Darling," he patted her head. "When I lost my parents and everyone around me—I was a beggar. That's when your grandpa Alex found me and take me in."

"But our family killed his family." She said in low voice.

"You don't have to worry about that. You are too young." He patted her head.

"How can I not worry? He's literally like serving us."

"I'll talk to you later. I'll send someone to pick you up. I have to leave early since I promised your mom to cook for dinner."

Demi exhaled.

"Can I just go with you right now?"

"You have to gather up your things and it's late."

"You are doing this on purpose," Demi said and she's right.

"I am." He stood and bent down and kissed her head.

He left before some students could see him. Then her cousins and childhood friends greeted him, and he nodded.

She exhaled and then she stood and went over the counter of the café.

"Christian." She called. Christian turned around to her.

"Yes, ma'am?"

"Cut the crap." She said sharply.

"Uh, what did I do to offend you, Miss?"

"Don't call me ma'am, lady or miss."

"Yes, ma'—I mean—"

"Demi." She said.

"Demi."

Demi turned back and went back to her seat and her cousin Raiden teased him with Christopher.

"Shut up." Demi snarled at him.

"Do not do that ever again, Raid," Aria said and she exhaled. "Guys, we need to eat right away because dad kept on texting me on what time we are going to arrive back home."

"Sure," Rhys patted Aria's head.

Aria's phone started ringing and she answered it.

"Dad," She mumbled.

"Your mom and I are on our way to your Uncle Dmitri's house with Carter," Andel said.

"Yes, I know. Can you please stop bugging me, daddy? We'll be there."

"I already sent drivers to pick you up guys and then,"

"Then what?"

"I just missed you."

"Dad, we'll be there."

"Okay,"

****

Freya reached Chelsea's school and she talked to the adviser. Her daughter has been excused. Chelsea hugged her mother and then kissed her little sister on the forehead as they walked to the parking lot and two bodyguards are guarding them.

"What's with the sudden bodyguards?" She asked.

"Your sister has been hit by her teacher and bullied by those students."

Chelsea frowned.

"I never hit my daughter, and someone just did." Freya is furious and Chelsea could feel it.

"Mom calm down. Are we going to that school?"

"Not right now. Casey is still in trauma and she needs some distraction."

"So, we are going shopping?"

"Yes." Freya put her other arm around her, and her third born is as excited as the youngest.

"Wow! I need something for my notes."

"We are going to buy it all and make sure that Casey won't think about it."

Soon, they reached the mall and they bought whatever Casey and Chelsea wanted. Freya also bought new under garnets for her husband and the boys and the boy's supply for the school. Then, they went to the department store to buy things that Freya needed to homeschool her youngest daughter.

Steven arrived and he reached Casey and snuggled to her and kissed her lips.

"Dada!" She excitedly hugged his neck.

"We need to leave. We have dinner at Agatha."

"Sure. We'll just pay for these."

"That's a lot of school supplies."

"I am going to stay with Casey." She said. "After I put that school down." She said it dangerously and Steven shuddered.

****

Demi took her belonging and laundry. Her mother told her that the maids could do the laundry and she would just bring a set of clothes for the whole week. Each of them is doing it. So, they won't need to wash their laundry except for underwear.

She washes her underwear and she had a personal and portable washer and dryer.

A knock on the door makes her stop. Aria opened it up.

"Hey, come in." After she folded her laundry, she took her head thinking that they are enslaving the last blood of Lebedov. She knew all about the history. Her father told it to her and somehow, she found something more.

Zendaya said that it sucks, and she somehow had glitches of memories at a young age on how her mother got lost and how her mother would die and be in danger because of a fake mother that showed up. It wasn't just that, but her mother also got kidnapped by Christian's Uncle and then her Aunt Freya nearly got killed by Christian's mother.

"Dem, our bodyguard is here!" Aria knocked on her room.

"What bodyguard?" Demi asked and put her shoes on. "Are you ready Zendy?" She called out for Zendaya in the other room.

"Yeah!"

So, they are three in one room and there should suppose to be four. But the other one is already set up for the new one also part of their family. Their parents set up just to make sure that no one would snoop around and investigate about their real identities.

She came out and Christian is standing stiffly seeing all girls stuff around.

"Is it your first time around girls' stuff?" Demi asked him.

"Not at all."

"Yeah, you are old enough and probably had seen more. So, Christian, to be honest. I don't know what father told you but, you don't have to stick around." She said it forthright.

"I told your father that I want to serve his family and to protect all of you as I could, to repay my family's debts."

Demi stared at him for a while.

"You aren't planning to kill us?"

"No."

"Good. Because I would know."

"Okay, stop grilling the guy now." Zendaya put a hat over her head and she patted Christian's chest. "He's our family now."

Christian froze from what Zendaya said and she smiled at him brightly.

"Could you please?" She asked and Christian nodded and opened the door for them. Zendaya stepped out and Aria then followed by Demi.

****

Christian drove the Jeep wrangler with her on the front seat and Aria and Zendaya at the back seat while the others are on their cars with drivers and bodyguards with them. He never thought the girls will be in a car and singing in his jam. But he's more curious about the heiress of the Phoenix Empire. She's quiet as she focused on the road.

Their mansion isn't that away from the Empire Academy so it's their first stop also everyone is gathered around. The truth why he wanted to serve the Phoenix Empire and the Dragon Empire? He needs a lot of debts to pay. And the funds that his mother gave to him? Once that he got it and got hold of it, he gave 20 percent of it to the nanny that protect him and take care of him. She was very caring and she's more like a mother than his real mother.

He's just seven years old and he even forgets his real mother because he rarely sees her. She's also ignoring him. Maybe his mother did lots of bad things to their family and he needed to repay it. Besides, he's doing his best to be a top agent and to prove himself to Dmitri.

Yup! He just found out that Dmitri kept him safe despite assassins that wanted to kill him because of frauds that his grandfather did, and they wanted to end the last Lebedov.

Soon, they arrived at the mansion and cars gathered around. Kids are playing and bodyguards are lined up and roving just to make sure that everyone is safe.

He parked the car and a bodyguard opened the door for them. He stepped out of the car and helped the girls with their bags. The butler came up and Demi took her bag and went inside the house. Dmitri hugged her and kissed her head lovingly.

Even the girls and boys had received the same hugs and kisses from their parents. He envies them.