190 Final Taste Testing

"Good evening, Vince and of course, Yve." Haru greeted them.

"Good evening." The couple greeted him back in unison.

"Are you finished with the food preparation, Haru?" Vince politely asked.

"The majority. The presentation will be done by my team." Haru said.

"Your team?" Vince asked when Haru let the information slipped from his tongue.

There was a moment of silence as Haru can't find the correct words to say in response to Vince's question. Yve smartly thought about it.

"I asked help from Edward to book your private jet and transport his team here. Since your birthday party is coming, I thought that Haru would need his team to assist him. Didn't Edward inform you?" Yve explained.

"No. It's okay as it's within Edward's ability to decide. Besides I instructed Edward to help you if there's anything you need." Vince said as Haru took this chance to go to the kitchen and finalize the dishes to be served.

Shortly after, the couple began to eat the dishes in order that they are served by Haru. As he was serving the food, he also explained the ingredients. Yve enjoys the taste of everything and her impression of her idol deepened.

"Haru! You're really the best. You were able to create a new set and served the dishes well." Yve praised her idol.

Haru bowed in response and smiled. Even if he's world famous chef, sincere compliments given his customers bring happiness to him. However, he felt sudden chills and turned his head and saw his friend emitting dark aura.

"Yve, if you don't stop smiling at me like that, Vince might kill me." Haru honestly replied as Yve looked at the man who's sitting across her while emitting an evil aura.

"Vince. Please don't act that way to your friend. I adore Haru because of his cooking skills and the dishes that he makes." Yve tried to calm her husband-to-be.

"Then what about me?" Vince asked which made her blush.

"Blushing won't solve a thing. I want to know the reason." Vince said.

Sensing how serious the matter at hand is, Haru decided to leave the couple behind and returned to the kitchen.

'Serving the trial dishes and receiving thumbs up are my jobs for tonight. Since I finished doing so, I should hide from Mr. Vincent Gray's wrath.' Haru thought.

"Vince, I don't know how or what are the reasons but one thing's for sure, I …." Yve stopped midway because she's feeling embarrassed.

"You're….?" Vince imitated her and waited for her to finish and walked closer to her.

"I love you and that's that." Yve can't ever get use to saying those three words to Vince.

'I'm on the actions speak louder than words.' Yve's inner voice shouted.

Happy with how his Queen answered his question, he kissed her on the lips in a split second. Before Yve can even react, it ended like it never happened. He cupped her face, touching their foreheads together. He knows and has always felt the love from Yve but still continued teasing her. He felt a little bad but not a single regret. He's trying to relive Yve of the embarrassment she is feeling from the confession she just made.

"I'm sorry for teasing you." He whispered.

"It's fine. I also realized I don't say those words often." Yve whispered back.

"It's okay as long as I can feel it." He responded and kissed Yve on the forehead.

As soon as everything was fine, the couple find themselves on their way to the hotel. Inside the car, maybe due to busy schedule and a lot of meetings to attend to, Vince fell asleep inside. Yve took this chance to give an instruction to Sylvan.

"Sylvan, everything is fine and as the date is fast approaching, I want to have a meeting with Team Alpha. Will that be possible?"

"That will be a little difficult due to their respective missions."

"Guarding Haru and Emika as well as Maddie, right?"

"Yes. But when do you want to meet? We can make things work during that time."

"Preferably after work. Why don't we meet in the hotel instead? I think Edward's office will do." Yve said and ended their short talk when Vince moved a little.

Avoiding the possibility of waking him up, she stopped talking and Sylvan didn't mind and continued driving.