Sleeping beauty

The Diamond Hotel 4 a.m.

Sanya's POV

"Knock Knock"

I get out of bed and walk calmly to the bedroom door.

"Shhhh" I take a step out of the bedroom.

"Sorry brother...Assistant Lee asked me to show you this." Yim makes a worried face and hands me the tablet with video footage from around the perimeter of The Diamond Hotel. "They are 5 minutes from the hotel."

After looking at the video footage, I slowly turn my face into the room to look to the person sleeping placidly on my bed.

"Have Assistant Lee meet them in the hotel entrance."

"How can you be so calm, brother? P'Vegas must be furious."

I smile at him kindly, stroking his hair.

"Nothing to worry about, Yim...is your wound healing well?"

"Yes brother, much better, thanks." Yim smiles at me in return and turns to leave.

"Yim..."

"Yes, brother?" He turns to me again.

"Ask them to be careful with the Chinese Ming Dysnaty vases in the entrance hall, please?"

"Sure, brother" He bows to me.

After closing the door, I go back to sit next to Pete who sleeps soundly.

...

Nops' POV

"Send some cars to the back of the hotel, Nop."

"Right, sir"

"Did you make sure Macau won't leave the mansion?"

"Yes, Khun Vegas. My men will keep an eye on him. Arm also assured me that he won't let Khun Macau step outside the mansion."

I wonder how he's going to do that...aish... Khun Macau is a good boy but he can be such a sly brat as well.

"Now Arm is Macau's official nanny?! When did I appoint him to this?"

"Well...I believe Khun Macau sort of appointed Arm himself, sir."

"He did, huh...I'll deal with it later. Tankhun won't allow it, anyway. We'll probably agree on that. "

"Oh yes, Khun Noo is very attached to his bodyguards...look about Pete..."

"Let's get this sorted out before Kinn and Porsche arrive to interrupt me." Khun Vegas put his guns in the holster.

"They won't let us into the hotel with those guns so easily, Khun Vegas."

"Who said I'm going to ask for permission?! I'll take that hotel down if I have to."

"Oh Lord..." I sigh.

"Have a little faith, Nop. Anyway...let's be honest. I respect Khun Sanya for the businessman that he is...but being competent CEO isn't going to save him from me now." Khun Vega's cunning smile...

Aish...this rich boy should know by himself that dangerous rich men can eat finely with a knife and fork while having an enemy killed in the dining room.

"Don't underestimate your opponent, Khun Vegas. He's in his territory. I don't know about the son, but the deceased father...let's just say people were killed if there were stains on the porcelain."

"How did you meet him? Not even my father could talk to the patriarch, only my uncle...I never saw him when I stayed at Yim's house."

"Hmm...by the time I used to work for the main family, Khun Korn and..."

"Khun Vegas, we arrived" The bodyguard driving warned me.

"We'll talk about it later. I have to get my wife back first and get rid of a few inconveniences along the way." Khun Vegas smirks, self-assured.

Oh Lord again.

...

Vegas' POV

As soon as my car parked in front of the hotel entrance, Khun Sanya's assistant came to greet me.

"Good morning, Khun Vegas!" The assistant does not show any kind of fear or concern. Polite and serene like her fucking boss.

"Good morning, my ass!"

"Khun Vegas, you are being so rude to such a pretty lady..." Nop whispers to me in disapproval." Your father would certainly not approve if he was alive..."

As expected, we haven't even reached Khun Sanya's territory, and Nop has already fallen under the spell of the beautiful and competent assistant Lee. The kind to be careful. As fierce as a man.

"I want to see your..."

"Please follow me, sir. Khun Sanya is waiting for you upstairs." Assistant Lee completes without letting me speak.

I frown. He already knew we were coming...

"Do you think I'm going with you alone ?!..."

"Sure not, Khun Vegas. Bring your bodyguards with you, please."

I feel suspicious.

We access a restricted hotel entrance. We all passed through the entrance without the metal detector sounding. Surely Khun Sanya does not want to cause any apparent disturbance in his upscale hotel.

Assistant Lee cordially pointed the way to the private elevator.

Me, Nop and part of my bodyguards got into the elevator.

"To the Penthouse." Assistant Lee says to the elevator's A.I.

...

When the elevator door opened, Yim was waiting at the penthouse entrance, smiling idiotically, as if that would save his life.

"Welcome to my brother's residence, P'Vegas."

"Don't play dumb, Yim! You betrayed me!" I patted the hand that was reaching out to greet me. "Where's Pete? I know he's here! Bring him here now!" I yell at him.

"Please calm down, Phi!" He asks in a trembling voice. "It's not what you're thinking." Yim looks at me scared. "Please, follow me. My brother is waiting for you. Your bodyguards can accompany you."

As we're entering, one of the bodyguards bumps into an imperial vase, which wobbles.

Yim rushes to stabilize the piece.

"Please be very careful. My brother gets furious when his things are touched or out of place. He is an extremely organized and fond of his things." Yim says seriously.

"Aish...did you hear that, Khun Vegas?! I told you! So much worry for an old vase..." Nop whispers in my ear.

"That old vase costs millions, Nop...I would kill for that too."

"...and a neating freak...stains in the porcelain, remember?!...like father like son... " Nop shakes his head.

"I'm a neat person myself"

"You got it, boss." Nop nodded

"Shup up, Nop"

"You can wait here". Yim tells my bodyguards, while the house's bodyguards remain motionless at their posts as if we weren't there.

"They go wherever I go." I say firmly

"Even to my brother's bedroom, Phi?" Yim asks me in a defiant tone.

I wasn't prepared to hear that. Why the hell Pete is in Khun Sanya's bedroom?!

"Show me the fucking way." (in English)

"Khun Vegas...?!" Nop tries to stop me, worried.

"Stay here, Nop"

...

The penthouse is huge. Yim stops in front of a large door.

He positions himself to knock on the door.

"Get out of the way" I push him away, squeezing where the bullet wound is, on purpose, and then I hit his stomach with force. Yim falls to the ground unable to breathe in pain.

I open the door, pulling out one of my guns.

I walk slowly across the room, but my eyes search frantically for Pete.

"Good morning, Nong Vegas. I see you haven't been sleeping very well."

Khun Sanya has that affable smile that I now want to deface with my bullets.

He is sitting on the bed, next to a person who is sleeping soundly like an angel. He has the back of one hand stroking his forehead.

"Pete? Pete? Get your fucking hands off him!" I point my gun at him, approaching the bed."

Kun Sanya smile and slowly removes his hand from Pete's forehead, who is still sleeping.

"Pete no longer has a fever." He remains seated next to Pete.

"Pete! Pete! What did you do to him? Why doesn't he wake up? Why is he in your room, you bastard?!" I yell at him angrily.

Both Khun Sanya and Pete are wearing matching silk robes.

"Don't mind it" Khun Sanya says, watching my eyes fixed on their robes. "I lent Pete a spare robe. He smile again, which makes me want to end his life even more.

"I don't know why you did all this...but it ends here."

"Nong Vegas, calm down, I'll explain..."

"Maybe I'll listen...in another life!"

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