Maybe some of you felt Chay forgives easily. He is. He was designed like that in my mind. He is a good boy, whose heart is as deep and wide as the ocean.

I also saw many teenagers, and once a teenager myself, make up and break up easily. So, I wrote with that design in mind.

But shits happen in life and you know what they say when a good guy is fed up with being hurt.

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The next day, Porchay visits the minor family mansion again. He needs to talk to Macau about yesterday. About Ash, about the kiss, and about things that might be changing between them.

By the time he finished his story, he realized three people were listening attentively.

"You're so easy, man. You should make him grovel until he kisses the ground you walk," Macau looks like he disapproves of everything that went on yesterday.

Yes, Chay admits he is easy when it comes to forgiveness. His Hia had lectured him about this tendency. But he can't help it. Everyone deserves a second chance, or third, in his opinion.

"Oh, Chay, why does it have to be him that you like?" Pete seems to be disappointed at Chay's life choices.

"Do you like the kiss?" That is Vegas with genuine curiosity.

Chay is a bit flabbergasted with all the reactions at the same time. He decides he wants to address Vegas first. "I did."

"Do you want to do it again with him?" Vegas asks again.

Chay feels heat is creeping up on his face and Macau chuckles his disapprovement, but he nods.

"What if ... More than just a kiss?"

"Hey!" Pete is throwing a pillow at Vegas. "Don't give him that idea!"

"What idea? It's a natural thing. People have needs and when two people like and are attracted to each other they can do that!" Vegas is now throwing his hands up in the air out of frustration. "You and Porsche should stop coddling him like he is 5. He is 19. He can do shit like that without adults breathing down his neck. Hell, I did stuff worse than that when I was younger than him."

"And you're proud of that, are you?"

"That's not the point!" Vegas is now shouting. He exhales a few breaths. "Baby, you and I know, Porchay is not going to be a baby forever. He will find someone and leave the nest. It is only unfortunately, that guy is Kim."

"There's someone else," Macau says, drawing the attention of the two adults in the room.

"What do you mean?" Pete asks, there is interest there.

"Cau," Porchay tries to warn him, but Macau pushes it aside.

"There is another guy who is interested in him, and when I say interested, it is capital letters."

"Who?" both of his brothers say that.

"Angkharn Sutivanichsak."

"Ash?" Vegas shouts. "Aiyayay, then was Kai, now is Ash? What's wrong with people in my circle?"

"Sutivanichsak as in the governor Sutivanichsak?" Pete asks.

Macau nods.

"Wow, Chay, that's impressive," a genuine admiration shines in Pete's eyes.

Chay blushes. "It's not like that, Phi, I swear. Cau is just made-up things."

Macau raises his brow. He feels insulted. "No, I'm not. Even people who saw you guys back then thought you were a couple."

"He's straight, Cau! How many times do I have to tell you?"

"Yes, and I've also told you can make people be gay for you!" Cau shouts back. "He can, right?" he asks his brothers, who simultaneously nodded. There is no room for doubts. Chay sighs, battle lost.

There is a minute of silence before Vegas asks Macau, "Why can Ash like you? If he is, I will gladly give you to him with a red bow attached to you."

This is the second time Macau feels insulted.

"He is that good of a candidate?" Pete asks, Vegas nods. "He is a good person, unlike the other one," Vegas grumbles the last bits. Macau shoots him a dirty look. Excuse you, he also doesn't want the other one! No matter how sexy and good-looking and rich and educated and...

Macau huffs his annoyance. After they are both learning about the hotel incident, Macau hates being with Vegas because of an example like this.

"Rich mother fucker with a handsome face and body, completely healthy, dignified, smart, successful businessman, and with an impressive background of a family that can be tracked to 200 hundred years back," Vegas pauses, "Porsche will also give Chay with a red bow attached to him in a heartbeat."

"Phi Kim is not bad himself," Porchay defends.

"Your P'Kim is the craziest young lord of the largest mafia clan in South East Asia. The only one who is big enough to rival us is The Sudiratmadjas of Indonesia. I even doubt any of them is as crazy as Kim. Sure, our family can also be traced a few hundred years back with the same impressive outcome of money and power, but ours is puddled with blood. Well, to be fair, his family is also made out of blood, but they seem more legit on the outside."

Vegas sighs as he sees Porchay's innocent eyes. He tells Chay to sit down. "I figure no one is bothering to tell you about this, but for the sake of science and clear conscience, I will. So you can get enough insights to make a decision." He stops for a while. "Do you know that Khun Korn initially wanted Kim to take the throne?"

Porchay's eyes go large, he shakes his head.

"He was 15 back then. Of course, the other elders disagree with making Kim the heir of The Theerapanyakun's throne, although they know what he is capable of. They reasoned he was too young. But even at that young age, he got all the jobs thrown at him done. Kim is so much like his father. He can kill someone and a minute later say condolences to the family with a sad smile attached to his face. He is still able to do that now, you know, even better. That's how scary he is. His body count even back then was the highest of us all. He was goal-oriented, inhuman, and detached from morals and reality when he was on an assignment. No one can read what was inside of his head. He was impressive. Khun Korn backed out because the majority disagreed and made Kinn the heir. But the idea wasn't dead there."

In other words, a perfect killing machine and a mafia leader, Chay thinks sadly. His Phi led a sad and hard life at a young age.

"Khun Korn suggested again when Kim was out of high school. But this time, Kim disagreed. He bailed out of the house after a bad argument. He and his father were on bad terms. Khun Korn even cut him financially, but Kim had his own money. Lots of it. He was far from starving and homeless. Kinn and Tankhun shipped him to the USA to learn music just so their brother didn't get constantly bullied by their father. You don't want to know what that man did to him. I was there in the US with him. He helped me a couple of times when I was out doing family things, unofficially. Kim hasn't set foot in the main house ever since the fight with his father. Until Porsche. He has no one close enough to Porsche, except you. So ... He did what he did to you. That's how much he loves and protects his brothers. I will do the same for Cau. We have fucked up families, but our brothers are a different thing. But keep in mind, Kim doesn't need Theerapanyakun's name, not anymore."

"So ... It tells me a lot of things without words when he came back to the mafia world full-time to be with you. It tells me the depth of his feelings. If you decide to be with him, it's not going to be a puppy love story. It's going to be a do-or-die thing."

Porchay pales a little. That's scary.

"Don't scare him, Hia! Kim hasn't even said sorry to Chay," Macau intervenes.

Vegas turns his attention to Chay again. "Do you really need one? Hasn't what he done for you enough?"

Porchay contemplates. He nods slowly. He needs an apology to close that chapter once and for all.

"Then express that to him, he is not a typical human you see every day. He's complicated. There are some loose screws in him," Vegas points at his head. "He's more like me than Kinn or P'Khun. If you don't say anything, he will assume. And Chay, you don't want Kim to assume things."

He probably will do that, talk to him about the past. He knows their future can only be if the past is resolved.

"Now, about Ash. He is my friend. Oldest one. We have been friends since we were in diapers because our moms were friends. I can attest that he is the most eligible bachelor in Thailand right now because of the qualities that I've told you. I told him to take care of both of you in London. He hasn't told me anything about you and him, but he did tell me you are a cute nong."

Macau snorts. Porchay hits him with a pillow.

"From an outsider's perspective, I think you are better with Ash. But from a personal perspective, I say do what your heart tells you. In the end, nothing people say really matters."

Chay knows Ash is all that and some more but he is also sure Kim can beat Ash in everything. He is just as good if not better.

"We are slowly becoming legit too," Pete says. Vegas smiles at him, endearingly. "Baby, we have 70% legal business but the 30% illegal one is more lucrative than the 70%. Do you think the family will want that percentage to be lower? Are you rooting for Kim now?"

Pete looks unamused so Vegas stops teasing him.

There's a knock on the door. "K'Macau, there is a ...," the man behind the door hesitates. "There is a delivery for you and they need you to personally sign it for paperwork."

Paperwork?

Vegas looks at his brother, ready to strangle him if he buys expensive toys again. His financial quota is done for this week.

"I didn't order anything, I swear!" he says as he gets up from his seat and opens the door. Everyone follows him.

When Macau gets through the main door, his jaws drop. There is the latest edition of a Ducati bike that sits prettily in front of his house. It's blue, his favorite color.

"I didn't order this," he says to the delivery men, who are all smiles and polite.

"It's courtesy of Khun Boss," one of them says as he hands Macau the paperwork.

"Who?" Macau says at the same time as Vegas shouts, "What?"

Vegas instantly whips his phone and presses a contact. "Hey asshole," he says, "Take your toy back from my house! My brother doesn't need it and if he does, I'm more than capable of buying him myself."

"Well, I'm just buying out of impulse. I figured blue looks good on him."

Vegas wants to break a bone or two of this guy. "Kai, I won't say it again. Stay. The. Fuck. Away. From. My. Brother!"

"We've been friends for a long time, V, and we never have problems with each other. Why do you dislike me so much now?"

"Because you're after my brother! You're a man whore, Kai. You fuck everything that walks. I'm fine with that until you're after Macau. So fuck off of him or I will put a bullet to your testicle!"

Kai only laughs at Vegas's threat. Vegas closes the connection out of annoyance. "Bring that back!" he says to the men, but then he sees Macau already signs the paper. The men quickly bow and leave. "Macau! I'm gonna beat your ass if you take that!" Pete tries to calm his man down but fails.

His Hia is furious, but Macau isn't afraid, to Chay's wonder. He just stands still and lets Vegas blow his steam by shouting profanities and threats, including burning the bike and putting Macau in one of the dungeon's cells.

"Let him be," Macau says, relaxed and chilling. "That's just how he is. He can spit and threaten, but I'm not going to give that back. Do you know how much that cost?"

Porchay just shakes his head at his best friend. "You're crazy."

"Said someone crazier. You have a relationship with Kimhan Theerapanyakun. Ewwww."

Chay laughs. He has no comeback to that.
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