Henry woke up the next day when the sun lights up the whole kitchen and he jolted from the floor only to feel the sharp pain hits him on his stomach and his ribs. The event last night hits him when he remembered the waiter had kicked him and the conversation he had with June.

He turned to see the clock over the oven showed almost twelve when he scrambled on his feet and gets himself ready for work.

By the time he arrived at work, he was twenty minutes late and the whole kitchen was quiet when he entered. The sharp glanced that made his heart dropped the moment he grabbed his apron and wished they would just leave him be.

"You did this!" One of the waitress came and pulled him by his shoulder before a slapped reaches across his cheek. He turned to face her stunt by her sudden gesture before his eyes went behind her and the rest of the staffs is looking at him.

"What?" Henry asks clueless at her action.

"Yesterday you threatened Jonah. Now he's dead!" She says and Henry eyes widen. "I assure you I have nothing to do with it." He tries to defend but the look on their faces makes him want to leave.

"Of course you didn't! Obviously you didn't drive the bus that hits him! But your threat might have cause him to lose focus and got himself killed!" Another slapped reaches Henry cheek on the swollen side which Henry cupped the pain in his palm.

"I didn't- I-" Henry stutter when suddenly the manager walks in with his usual black folder staring at his staffs that gathers around Henry.

"What the hell is going on?" He asks and the staff began to scatter to their own station. The waitress that slapped him had one last glanced before she disappeared leaving Henry stood frozen on the ground. "You! Late again!" The manager asks charting something in his black folder which Henry knew when he meant again. He was late once when he caught a fever from walking in the rain but he continued working until midnight despite the fever because he didn't want to lose his job.

"I'm sorry sir-"

"Spare me the theatrics. You're fired." The manager says pulling Henry's apron from his grip. "Please. Please sir. I need this job. I promised I will work today with no pay if it meant having my job back. Please." Henry begs trying to pull the apron from his hand but the manager pulls it back and clutched it underneath his armpit.

"Go! I already hired someone else. Go! Before I called the cops!" The manager says and Henry was speechless by his cold act. He saw the stares coming from the rest of the staffs and the smirked formed on their lips from watching his life crumbled in pieces.

Henry was about to walk out from the kitchen and head home when the manager came back yelling his name. "Blondie! Get over here. Someone wants you!" He yells and Henry was surprised what he meant by that. But before he could asks, the manager pulled him by his elbow dragging him out from the kitchen headed to the seats assigned in the restaurant.

Henry was pulled and shoved into a seat with a person sitting across from him hiding from the huge menu in front of him.

"So! What's good here?" The guy asks lowering the menu down only to reveal himself and Henry was not amused by his question at all.

"The fuck are you doing here?" Henry asks and a slapped hits the back of his head. He turned to see his manager standing behind him with a white towel hanged from his arm as he took his order.

"We have salmon cooked in-" he was about to elaborate of the special menu for the lunch when Alex stopped him.

"Stop. I'm being sarcastic. I won't dream of eating here if I want to end up in a hospital. You can leave." Alex dismissed the guy with a flicked of his wrist and Henry can see how frustrated he was for being blown off but he could barely open his mouth when the same guy that follows Alex around stepped in and he scrambled away.

"Who did it?" He asks bringing his palm under his jaw staring at Henry's pale bruised face but Henry could only frowned at him. He stood up abruptly only to have the same puppy that followed Alex around shoved him back into the seat and he winced clutching his sides in pain.

"I asks again. You don't have to say names, just- point." Alex offered but Henry only stares at him with his burning gaze.

"Please leave." Henry whispered but Alex sighed clenching his jaw tight before leaning himself back on the seat. "Not until you tell me who did that." Alex asks pointing his sharp index finger at him.

"Doesn't matter. He's dead." Henry says raising both of Alex's eyebrows at him.

"Not bad English. Didn't know you had it in you." He says faking a clap that has no sound but Henry was not having it. "I didn't do it! He was hit by a bus!" He half yelled and Alex raised his brow again at him. "Sure." He says before he stood and fixed his button on the front suit.

"Come on." He says and the guy grabbed Henry by his elbow pulling him up from the chair to follow them.

"Where are you taking me?" Henry asks and Alex was leading their way out. "You are gonna win Nora back for me." He says and Henry tries to escape from the guy's clutched but he was a lot stronger than he looks.

"I am not your pet for you to drag me around!" Henry protest before pulling away from Cash's grips only to land himself against Alex's back.

Alex turned around slowly to face him before his hand gripped on his lower jaw. Henry winced at the touch from the bruised that form but was too scared to react, "You will be who I want you to be. Pet or slaves. You hear me?" Alex says pushing Henry's jaw back before he continued to walk towards the car.

Henry didn't follow him and instead he tries to run away only to have Cash caught him and pushed him into the car before slamming the door shut. Henry tries to unlock the door but failed and he can hear the amusing chuckle besides him.

"It's childproof. Go ahead, break the window. I dare ya. It's bulletproof." Alex southern accent slipped when he dared Henry but continues to laugh at him for trying to escape.

"What do you want me to do?" Henry asks and he hates when a tear began to fill his eyes as he stares at Alex tapping on his phone. His eyes glued to the screen as he ignored Henry's question which annoyed him. So he didn't think the consequences when he grabbed the phone from Alex's gripped and held it higher above his head to get his attention.

"Tell me or I'll smashed it to the window!" He warned but Alex had already set his fiery gaze at him before he jumped and grabbed Henry's wrist hard pulling him on the floor of the car. Henry cries in pain as his side hits the console and his wrist twisted in Alex's grip, "Do that again, and I won't hesitate to kill you." He whispered shoving Henry's arm from his phone and continued to lean himself back against the seat.

"Sit down!" He yelled at Henry to sit back on the seat which Henry obeyed. He didn't questioned much, feeling pain over his sides grew and he had to bit his lips from whimpering like a wounded dog next to him.

The ride took them half an hour with traffic and not once Henry glanced at Alex nor asks him questions anymore. He figures there is no point so he waited for the car to stop and the door to open for him to break free.

The moment the car stopped, Henry had waited for the door to open so he can run towards his freedom but only to have Alex pulled him back by his shirt and faced him. "If you tries to escape, I will strangled you with my bare hand and you will feel your own breath leaves until you dies. Then we will see how brave you are to face death." Alex warned pulling Henry close to face him.

Henry stares at him with broken gaze and watery eyes before he nods weakly in defeat. "Go in, apologized for leaving and asks for your job back." Alex ordered but Henry was about to protest again when Alex hissed clutching his shirt tighter, "Do not fight me in this. I knew you were fired before you sat down. The whole restaurant heard how that piece of shit treats you! Don't give me that bullshit saying you are fine there when you're not!"

Alex can see the defeated gaze in Henrys eyes when he slowly let go of his shirt and Henry's gaze soften at his words. He can feel Henry's eyes lowered and his throat bobbed up and down as he swallowed.

"You can't deny that Nora treat you better as a human. Why would you allow those people treat you any worse?" He asks but Henry didn't reply. His breath hitched as he fixed his shirt that crumpled from Alex's grip before the door opened next to him.

Henry swallowed the lump in his throat as he climbed out from Alex's car and saw the front entrance of Nora's bakery store. The scent invaded his nostrils as he entered with that familiar bell chimed welcomed him back into the store hits him deeply into his heart.

Nora looked up from stocking her bread when she spotted Henry walked in and immediately placed the tray down on the table and ran towards him.

Her body collides into Henry and he gasped as the contact hurts him but he wasn't gonna let her go just yet. He felt that her hugs was the only thing he needed right now and as soon as the arms locked, he broke into a sobs.

"I'm so sorry Henry. I'm so glad I see you. I don't know where to find you or how to contact you. I'm so glad you're okay." Nora says pulling herself out from their embrace when she noticed the bruised and the cut lips. "What happened to you?" She asks but Henry shook his head softly at her. "N-Nothing. Just a minor mishap." He replies.

Nora tilted her gaze back at Alex that stood behind him with his arm crossed when her eyes shooting fire at him. "YOU DID THIS?!" She yelled not bother about the customers that starts to leave her bakery and Cash locked the door right after.

"I most certainly am not! Tell her!" Alex yelled and Henry shook his head, "No it wasn't him. It was my current job. They don't- like me there." Henry adds and Nora raised her fingers over Henry's cheek trying to stroke his wound but Henry pulls back.

"Can I come back and work here?" Henry asks and Nora sighed with a soft smiled curled up on her lips. "Of course. You are most welcome. Come on. Have you eaten?" She asks offering Henry a seat and he sat himself down with Alex sat next to him.

"I'll have a scone and Americano please." Alex orders but Nora ignores him.

"Get out!" Nora told him while filling up the tray with multiple pastries for Henry. "Hey! I brought him back, the least you can do is thanked me!" Alex protest but Nora clicked her tongue at him.

"Get the hell out Alejandro or I'll shoved this up your ass!" Nora held a baguette in her hand and Alex raised his brow at her. "Is that a challenge?" He asks with the widest smile and Henry snorted a laugh next to him but immediately lose the smile when Alex shot him a death glare.

Nora came back with the tray in her hand and smacked Alex's head with the baguette which he cries out in pain.

"Out!" She yelled and Alex clicked his tongue at her. "This is what I get from getting you bestie back? I should have just let him rot there instead." He says as he stood from the chair and Cash was already held the door open for him.

"Alex." Henry called turning his gaze back, "What?" He asks annoyed.

"Thank you." He says with a weak smile on his face. Alex nods without a reply before he went out from the store leaving Nora and Henry to talk.