Captive Mate BL-Chapter 634: - - -

Rosie was lost in thought as she drove over to the Knights’ mansion. It had been a busy couple of days, and she had just finally stolen the chance to drop by the Knights to make the baking request of Katya.

It was already mid-week, but she had confidence in the cook’s skills. She knew that even if she showed up on the morning of the gender reveal dinner to ask for the cake, Katya would have it ready in no time.

But she wanted to give the kindly cook a heads-up, so she would have ample time to prepare.

It was late in the afternoon, and after she was done here, she had to hurry back in time to accompany her boss to a meeting.

She was easily let into the mansion, walking right up the stairs to the kitchen like she still lived there.

Katya was the first person she bumped into when she stepped into the kitchen. The older Omega had a surprised smile on her face at the sight of her.

"Patty is in the study," She right away pointed out, "Are you staying for a while? There’s some pastries..."

"I’m actually here to see you," Rosie cut off her plans to stuff her full of food, whispering conspiratorially.

Katya leaned in, playing along. "To see me? Is something wrong?"

"Is there somewhere quiet we can talk?" Rosie asked, glancing around.

Katya nodded grimly, pushing the mobile tray she had been holding to another kitchen staff member before leading the way. She notably didn’t take them to the study, instead leading the way to the store.

She closed the door behind them when they were in, her dark eyes grim. "What’s wrong?"

"Nothing is wrong," Rosie hastily corrected, looking sheepish.

She only just realized how her actions and words could have been misconstrued.

Katya didn’t look like she believed her, "Are you sure?" She insisted, her voice gently, urging.

"It’s Lake’s baby," Rosie decided to just go right to the point, as it was the only way to convince Katya. "I’m planning a secret gender reveal dinner for the weekened and I wanted to ask you if you would like to bake the cake."

All the tension in Katya’s frail but sturdy shoulders eased off, her face stretching out into the widest smile. "The cake? But of course! I would love to!"

Rosie relaxed, pleased that she had decided to give this important task to Katya. The cook was beyond happy to be ask, already scheming to make the best cake ever without even asking for the baby’s gender.

"Maybe you should wait for the baby’s birthday to bake your best cake," She teased.

Katya took her seriously though, nodding gravely in agreement. Her eyes went wide when Rosie divulged the baby’s gender, eager to get right to work although the dinner wasn’t for a couple of days.

It took all of a few minutes to make the arrangements with Katya, she didn’t bother making a request, leaving Katya with full creative freedom over the cake.

Although, with how happily the cook waltzed out of the storeroom, she was starting to think that she should have made a request so that Katya didn’t show up with a many-tiered cake on the day of the dinner.

They would barely be eating the cake, it was just for show. And although, Katya would be happy to come over on the day of to cook for the dinner as well, that was her Mafia King’s jurisdiction, and she knew better than to interfere. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

In a few minutes, she was done, but she stole some time to drop in on her friend.

Patty was behind her laptop in the cozy study, the chances that she were balancing books next to zero.

"Rosie!" The accountant called in surprised at the sight of her, rising to her feet. "You didn’t tell me you were coming over."

"It was a spur of the moment decision," She made excuses, chatting casually before hurrying off to report back to her boss.

She narrowly missed Caspian, her car driving off into the distance just as the Missus returned in the company of his bodyguards.

The home gym building was still ongoing and Caspian bit back his curiosity, heading to his room for a shower after a productive day.

He considered keeping the secret from Asher until after he got his license, then he could casually drive over to drop off his mate’s lunch.

The thought was enough to put him in a giddy mood. There might be a lot of burdens he was unable to do anything about but the one thing he could do was to become more dependable so he would no longer be dead weight, adding to his mate’s burdens.

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"What did Katya say?" Lake asked when his secretary walked into his office, getting up so they could head out.

"She agreed, very happily too." Rosie replied, lingering at the door.

"I wonder if we could invite her over for dinner," Lake mused more to himself, taking Davian’s offered arm.

Rosie had also considered that, "We could but she’ll most likely turn down the invite."

Katya was a long time staff of the Knights and her respect and loyalty ran deep. She would not want to attend a dinner with the three Mafia Kings and their mates.

Hell, even Patty was still squeamish about eating dinner with them even though Caspian must have invited her several times.

Lake didn’t counter that because he could certainly see that happening, he thought about how he could appreciate the older Omega for the trouble and came up short.

Katya wouldn’t accept any form of payment from him, and it was rather redundant buying foodstuffs. Caspian would not allow that.

Soon other pressing matters took up the forefront of his mind, and he decided to think about it later. Maybe he could even enlist Caspian’s help after the dinner.

For now, his attention was needed elsewhere. It was another tech company Davian owned, so he had to pay full attention during the meeting because his opinions and decisions were heavily valued by the company.