A/N: The image of Amanda (Primrose Chindavanich) above does not belong to me. It belongs to the person who uploaded it on the internet.

Third Person POV

Every now and then Neen would lose Amanda in the heavy traffic. They were going through Bangkok's busiest thoroughfare so Neen could not blame Amanda for impatiently weaving in and out of the car-filled lanes.

After almost half an hour of enduring a close to bumper to bumper situation, Neen finally noticed Amanda exit into a less busier street. Neen followed Amanda for about five miles before she turned into a quiet tree lined avenue. Neen noticed the high fences and the manicured lawns of some unfenced properties. 

Neen watched as Amanda's car crawled to a stop beside a tall wrought iron gate with an elaborate design. Neen stopped her car behind Amanda's but didn't turn off her engine. Amanda stepped out of her car and walked towards Neen.

"Hey sweets, you wanna bring your car inside the driveway?"

Neen's heart did a cartwheel. Amanda seemed to casually bandy that word around and Neen was not sure what to make of it.

"I'd rather wait out here," Neen replied.

"Alright then," Amanda said. "I'm just gonna have a quick word with my dad and then I'm gonna be back in a flash."

The flash turned out to be more than just that.

Amanda's dad wanted her to stay and discuss her involvement in the merger-in-the-making between him and Perth's father.

"No, dad!" Amanda exclaimed. "I'm not interested in Perth anymore!"

"You don't have to be interested in Perth," Amanda's dad kept his patience with his only offspring. "But Perth will definitely be interested in you because he will be closely involved in his father's new merger."

"Shit," Amanda said under her breath.

"What did you say?" her father asked.

"Nothing, dad," Amanda replied. "But I have to go now. There's someone waiting for me outside the gate."

"Who is waiting for you outside the gate?" Amanda's dad got curious.

"A new friend," Amanda replied. She bit her tongue in time because she had almost said 'my girlfriend' and she wasn't sure that her dad would approve.

"She will have to wait," Amanda's dad firmly said.

"No, dad!" Amanda pouted. "It's your discussion with me that can wait!"

"Stop being so stubborn, Amanda," her dad was now starting to lose his patience.

"I have to go," Amanda wasn't going to listen to her dad.

Amanda rushed out of her father's home office and banged its door shut before running towards the gate and unlocking it with her remote.

As she walked briskly towards Neen's car, she could see Neen through the windshield already pouting. She remembered that she had promised Neen that she would be back in a flash.

"Sorry to keep you waiting," Amanda said with an apologetic smile as she settled on Neen's front passenger seat.

"No need to be sorry," Neen said. "You can always pay me with a kiss."

"You don't have to ask me twice," Amanda said before grabbing Neen's face and planting a kiss on Neen's lips.

Unknown to Amanda, her father had quietly followed her to the gate and had seen the kiss.

Amanda's father walked back to the house shaking his head in anger and disbelief. He was not going to let anything interfere with his business plans, not even Amanda. She was going to toe the line. He was going to make sure of that. And the first step to make was to get rid of whoever that girl was whom he had seen Amanda kissing. The image was distasteful to him. He was never someone who approved of the idea of same gender relationships.

The first thing Amanda's father did was to call the head of his security department. He instructed him to trace Amanda, find out where she went and report back to him.

After that call, Amanda's father made another call. It was a call to his soon-to-be business partner, Mr. Tanapon.

"Good to hear from you!" Mr. Tanapon said enthusiastically to Amanda's dad. "What's cooking, my friend?"

"I have a bit of a problem," Amanda's father replied.

"Tell me," Mr. Tanapon said. "You know I am always here to help you."

"It's really not your help that I need," Amanda's father said a bit hesitantly. "It is Perth's help that I need."