Kim is freaking out but tries to calm himself. "Asses all the compound and mansion's ground. There must be a secret passage we don't know," he says to Big, who nods and leaves immediately. "Call Chan!" he says to Arm. "If his number isn't working, track him!"

Vegas, Pete, and Macau arrive in under ten minutes. That's a record. "V, please get Chan to tell us every secret passage that he and my father knew!" he tells Vegas. The latter takes over the phone from Arm. Chan no longer works for the family the moment his father is bed-bound. He retired himself.

Vegas can be very persuasive even to the most reluctant, just the right man for the job because Chan can be 'difficult'. He said the day he quit, he didn't want anything to do with the family anymore, probably wary of the shift of the command. Everyone in the room, besides Pete, never heard him pleading so earnestly. It got the job done because after ten minutes Chan finally cracked. "Chan said the one in your father's library and his room were the closest call," says Vegas. "He's willing to help, said he has a soft spot for Chay. Should we bring him in?"

After a thought, Kim shakes his head. "Too risky. He is too close to my father. But track him still, just in case."

Vegas agrees.

Kim continues, "V, this might be too much, but we need your connection with Ash. He probably knows where his father's playgrounds are. We need to cover it all."

"What if Ash is involved in this?" Macau gives his two cents. "He wants Chay."

"Then we monitor his movement after I pay a visit. Right, cous?" he says to Kim with a smile.

"Right. And pay a visit to his father too. Extort whatever you can from him. He owes me. I'll send the file," Kim says. Vegas nods, then busies himself with reading immediately when his phone dings.

"We're already tracking Chay's movement. They are heading north, to the mountains. We already sent a team to cover it," Pete informs. Kim hands over his phone without a word, but Pete knows what he wants. He puts the tracker application in Kim's phone. 

"Kinn," he speaks to his brother, "I need you to take over here. I'm going to hunt!"

"Can I come?" Macau asks. Kim looks at Vegas and Pete first, seeking approval. Vegas nods. "Sure. Wear a vest and something red in your outfit to make it easier  for my team to recognize you."

"You're taking your team?" Kinn asks. Kim nods. When Porsche is also getting up with Kim, Kinn automatically grabs his arm, startled. 'Where are you going?' is there without being said.

"Well, I obviously will come with Kim."

"No," Kim says. "You're going to Amara's house. We must act swiftly. Take a team you can trust. Remember, we definitely have a mole."

Porsche nods. "Pete, can you come with me?"

Pete looks at Vegas, kisses his lips, then nods. "Is my operative clothes still here?" he asks.

"I don't know. Ask a new one, Partner. Are you forgetting that we're rich?" Porsche says with a smile. Pete smiles back.

"Who are we going to take?" Pete asks. "Can we take our guys, V?"

"Sure, Babe. Just remember safety first, safety always. Don't play heroes. Ok?" Both Pete and Macau nod.

Kinn knows he can't forbid Porsche. It takes time for him to nod to his lover. He hugs Porsche tightly. "Come back to me, ok?" he says. They kiss each other hard enough to make a sound.

Khun gives him a hug to Kim. "Bring him back!" he says.

Kim is out in a matter of seconds. He asks Mong to bring his laptop out. His full team, minus Big, is already on standby.

"Hand me your phone! All of you," Kim says to his team. His men are looking at each other in confusion but follow his command. Kim connects every device with his laptop, searching for bugs. Call him paranoid, but he can never be too sure when it comes to Chay and his job. All phones are cleared and back to their owners.

Then they ride the night at full speed.

***

Porchay finds himself at the back of a van. A hard slap wakes him up. "Wake up, lover boy!" then a laugh. That's a derogatory move, but lucky for Chay he's not a weak heart.

The moment the power was out, Porchay knew something was wrong. In less than a minute, someone already put the tranquilizer on him and dragged him away.

So now all he can do is brace himself for the worst. How did they know the timing, though? Something is wrong. There is definitely a mole in the mansion. Or maybe moles, plural. Korn's men are still many and they are still working for the family as Kim's sweep hasn't been thorough yet.

He begins by assessing his whole body first. The ring is still there. That's good. They bind him with a double zip tie lock, both in his hands and feet. The mole must be close enough to know he had lessons with Vegas. Shit.

There are five men plus the driver in the car. They are all wearing masks, so this is definitely an inside job. Heavily armed. Military boots. Maybe they are bullet vested too judging by the look of their clothes.

After he covers everything, he tucks his head down. It's not good to make a wondering-eye for long in this situation. The capture might take it as a rebellion and punish him accordingly.

No. Let's save the energy from now. Chay closes his eyes but his ears are working.

"He still has a tracker with him!" one of them says.

"What? Can't be! We already stripped him and he doesn't wear much."

True. What Chay wears is not ideal. He wears shorts and sandals, figuring he is safe in the mansion. Chay is praying they won't notice the thin ring on his toe.

"The guy who I plant the tracker on is heading our way."

Oh no.

They search for the device again, very thoroughly this time, down to beneath his underwear. They find the tracker, but they are not sure it's a tracker.

"Just pull for a second and shoot it. We can never be too sure," says someone who Chay thinks is the leader of the team. They follow his order.

Oh fuck his luck, Chay curses inside his head.

***

When the dot dies, Kim curses out loud. He immediately gets in touch with Vegas. "It died!" he says in frustration.

Vegas curses too, more colorful. "They can't find it out without knowing what are they looking for! The ring is thin enough to go unnoticed."

"Then how?"

"The mole told them?"

Kim shakes his head, forgetting it's a voice call. "Can't be. There is only us and Arm there."

"Arm?" Vegas suggests. Half believe it, but there is nothing wrong with being paranoid in this case.

"Call Khun after this," commands Kim. Vegas gives an OK.

"If it's not Arm, then someone in your team," says Vegas.

"Negative. Already checked their phone." Then something comes to Kim's mind. "I'll have to go, V. Good luck with your assignments."

"You too, Kim!"

After the call, Kim hurriedly tells his team to strip. "Someone is bugging us!" he says. They all check every item in their body and find a tiny tracker inside Rak's hair tie. Rak can't believe it, she almost cries.

"Who gave this to you?" asks Kim.

"A guy. He lives in the apartment next to mine. We have casual sex sometimes."

Kim pats her head, saying words of encouragement without a word. "Tell his detailed description and his life story to Mong. Sometimes even the best can slip out." Then he turns to Mong, "Tell Big to break this guy's apartment a.s.a.p!"

Both Rak and Mong nod and do their job. Tee brings her to his embrace after Kim is done with her, while the others are patting her back.

"What do we do now, Sir?" asks Tee.

They are on the right track, so they are going to stay here, Kim thinks. "I need time to track this tracker back. So guard the perimeter. We never know when we will be ambushed." Kim goes inside the jeep again and starts to use his laptop.
***

About fifteen minutes later, someone makes Chay sit in a wooden chair. The bound in his hands changes into a thick rope which is harder to get out of.

The people around him change. Now there is the pretty girl with a familiar face. Kim's 'mistress'. She smirks at him and it irritates Chay. "Start the video," the girl says, lighting a cigarette.

And then begins the torture.

Chay does his best to keep his body in a curled-up position, protecting his chest and stomach. But the beatings of five men are too heavy for his 'untrained with actual torture' body. Just ten minutes and it's already hard for him to breathe.

The woman grabs his hair from the back of his head. "I don't know why he chose you over me. What's so good about you? You don't even have a pussy!" she spits.

She's talking about Kim. That gets Porchay to laugh. "What's the matter? Did my Kim break your bitchy heart?"

The bitcth grains her teeth at his insult but decides to use his skin as an ashtray repeatedly as a punishment. It hurts a lot and gets Porchay to groan in agony.

"It's a shame I can kill right now!" she says with heavy venom before he hears a heavy thud and blacked out.
***

The family makes a group call, reporting the current situation.

Porsche says Amara's house is already empty with no activity and Kinn calls him and the group to the house again. Relief is apparent in his and Vegas's voice.

The house is in lockdown. Kinn removes permission to go in and out of the mansion and compound for all employees and personnel. They still try to track down the mole. He will round up all the people the second Porsche and his team arrive.

"Kinn, our people know how we work. If they have a family, they won't risk their safety. To begin the search with people with family who moved recently and still not reporting their current address and people who are alone or estranged from their family. My bet is on the latter. People who are alone have nothing to lose and a lot to gain from betraying us," Kim says. Kinn and Vegas agree.

"After this, Porsche and I will sort the minor family personnel and employees. We can not be too careful. Let's just make this to cleaning the closet thoroughly," Pete informs. He and Porsche already agree on this before this talk.

"Babe, wait for me if you want to do that," Vegas says, evidently annoyed. "They don't know Porsche. They know me." Vegas doesn't need to continue, Pete already knows what entails. 'They know Vegas and what he can do to every single one of them if it turns out the minor family people has anything to do with this'.

"Just stick to your job, Vegas! How is it in your end?"

"Not good," Vegas sighs. "His family took away Ash. He has been house-jailed for two weeks now. His butler gave me this," he shows the paper to the screen.

'Ask Kai about what happened on March 18th'.

It gets all the people there scrunched up their faces, until Macau blurts out, "That's Chay's birthday!"

It gets Kim's chest flared up with jealousy, but before he can get anything out of his mouth, there is a ding from his phone. An unknown number sends a video. After screening for the virus, Kim sends the video to the group.

They watch Porchay getting tortured together. When the part where Dahlia burned Porchay's skin with a cigarette repeatedly displays, there is a simultaneous yell from three people, "That bitch is mine!"

Vegas rolls his eyes. "Fine. We share."