Pete's POV
"I hate girls...let's take this stupid wig out!"
Vegas pulls the wig off my head.
"You know who I am..." I widen my eyes.
"You could be wearing a paper bag over your head... I would still recognize you, Pete." He said laughing tenderly to me, fixing my hair. "Besides, I've known you've been at De Light since the moment you set foot here, Pete."
"How? Arm told you... he swore he hadn't told you..." I frown.
"Arm will always be more loyal to you than he is to me, even if his relationship with Macau depended on it."
"So...how...?! I stare at him, curious.
"As soon as I arrived in Taipei, I got in touch with the local document forgers who work for Theerapanyakul Family. I traced those forged documents path. Arm picked up those documents at a cafe. I studied main establishments in the nearby neighborhoods. De Light caught my attention. I'm not a tech guy like Arm, so it took me all day." (1)
"Damn..."
"I called Andy to book a room to meet Kamol and asked if there was anyone on his staff who could speak Thai. He told me two siblings had just been hired. That was the confirmation I needed. I didn't expect to see you dressed as a woman though. I hate the braids, but this maid dress looks cute on you, babe..."
Vegas lifts my skirt.
"Hey, pervert!"
He laughs.
"Not Wednesday Addams, not an assassin maid...are you dressed as a nun, Pete?!...it turns me on..."
Vegas' hands run on my thighs and my...
I pull the edge of my dress from Vegas' hands and adjust my outfit.
"Respect the cross of Jesus, for God's sake."
"Haha...you're so into this cosplay thing"
I frown again and cross my arms.
"Anyway... You did all that to find us in less than 24 hours...?!"
"I can do anything to find you, Pete..." Vegas hold my arms tightly...his smile fades as if hurtful moments come to his mind.... "Just accept that I'll never let you go again..."
I don't want Vegas to feel sad...
"Don't worry about it! You're stuck with me in this life...You'll have to endure me too!"
"We made merits together, remember...?! We'll be stuck with each other for eternity...
"So we're good." I smile to him.
"I'm so sorry, Pete."
"Why?!" I get confused.
"I should have listened to you. We would have gotten here together."
"It's not your fault alone... forget the past ... we can do it together now! Please...don't be mad at me as well...I had my reasons..."
He touches my cheeks and lips carefully...
"I should have killed them before they touched you..." Vegas countenance starts to get darker.
"No!" I try to draw his attention away from my wounds to not trigger any unwanted behavior from Vegas (2).
I hug him tight.
"..."
I feel him relax.
Vegas is strong, but also vulnerable. Vegas is self-confident but also self-doubting.
A roller coaster of emotions in a single person...dark, sarcastic, manipulative, seductive, cute, cheerful, tormented, angry...it's an endless cycle.
But his love and care for me don't change...stable as mine...unshakeable...all he does, I know he does for me, Macau and Venice.
"You did the right thing, Vegas. You held back your anger and protected my cover. You and Khun Noo worked together to help me. You trusted what I was doing. And that's how it should be between us...we are a team. Thank you so much for changing your mind and trusting my actions, Vegas."
I hug him tighter.
"We are going to work together on this chess room shit, Pete. I promise." Vegas hugs me back.
We stayed like that for a moment.
But I pull away from him, startled.
"Are there cameras here?"
"No...Tang Yi does not allow cameras in special rooms. He abides by his rules to the letter, even if he could benefit from the opposite. Thus he guarantees respect and trust in his establishment."
"You used to come here often....?!"
"Do you need an answer?!"
"...No... forget it...that's in the past."
"Tell me...what do want to know then?!Something bothers you, I can tell...you're still frowning. It will give you wrinkles."
Damn... I rub my forehead.
"Uh...Ton...have you ever came here with him?!"
"Ton?! Kamol would kill me...and Ton just used to come with him, as I remember..."
"Oh! That Thai guy Ton likes is Kamol...not you...good..."
"Me?!" He looks at me, puzzled.
"Have you never had a love interest in him?!"
"I've never had a real love interest in anyone in my life but you, Pete."
Vegas said firmly.
"Good."I hug him back.
"Do you want to experience something from this room?"
I jolt.
"Are you crazy? This room looks like Minor Family's Dungeon. Is that supposed to pull someone's guts out? I point to a structure of wood. Is that for sex or torture?!
"Don't you feel pleasure in pain, honey?!" Vegas nuzzles me.
"Oh, stop it!"
Vegas smiles again.
"So let's make sweet new memories for us here, Pete. I deleted from my brain anything about this place before getting you in my life."
Lewd smile.
"Sweet memories?!In here?! We need some holy water to wash all kinds of sins from here first... not some...gallons of holy water...I can't think of anything sweet right now."
"How about spicy?!"
"Get out! I take the cross around my neck and make the sign of the cross in front of Vegas.
"What are you doing, Pete?!"
"Exorcism"
"Come on, Pete...we don't have much time...don't play hard on me..." He holds my waist and kisses my neck."
"Shouldn't we talk about a plan first?!"
"We can do it after making love..." Vegas gets his hand under my dress again.
"Hey!"
"This dress has so many layers..." He flips me over "Where's your butt?"
"This outfit was made proof of perverts like you, Vegas...let me go!"
"Stop lying to me...stop lying to yourself...you want me too...you had an orgasm through phone sex...you miss my cock, admit it..."
This is going bad....
"Don't say it out loud! We are by the front door!" I turn and try to cover Vegas' mouth
"We are alone, Pete"
"I know! But it's embarrassing when you say things like this...".
"Is that why your ears are so red? It turns you on, Pete..." He smirks...
"..." I feel them burning...
Damn...
Vegas picks me up suddenly.
I hold my arms around his neck and my legs around his hips.
His body trembles a little.
"You're gonna drop me Vegas...put me down."
"Damn, this dress is heavy..."
"Where are you taking me?!Put me down, Vegas! You'll hurt your back!"
"I might hurt yours, babe" He kisses my neck lewdly, carrying me to somewhere I can't see since I'm looking towards the door.
"Please, please, please, I don't want to do anything weird or of doubtful taste."
"Have I ever made you do such a thing?
"You can't be seriously asking me this..."
"?!" Vegas acts fool.
Vegas sits in the huge red velvet armchair... that looks more like a royal throne.
"Not in bed?!" I ask him suspiciously, looking around us to find anything weird hanging from the ceiling.
"Maybe later, honey..."
Oh God... Vegas smirk...
Vegas' POV (a couple of nights later)
I kick him in the stomach again, flipping him over onto his stomach...ass up.
I crouch down to whisper in his ear, caressing his head.
"How about I get this gun inside you and pull the trigger, huh, would you like it?...I bet you would."
I push his head hard against the floor ...
He squirms in fear...
I turn to Kamol.
"You finish it..."
That bastard cried louder and begged for mercy.
"Thank you, buddy" Kamol smiles and sneers at the degraded figure that crawls in front of us, trying in vain to get away.
"No problem. I'm going to have a little chat with his 'old man' again...he refuses to say anything"
"He said nothing about the chess room or the white clan and this asshole knows nothing. Maybe they're not part of the chess room. Master Chen's clan has relevant business, but it's not part of the realms within the chess room.
"His clan will no longer exist anyway" I smirk to the pathetic man naked lying on the ground. I'm going to finish the old man for my own pleasure then."
"Go easy...you wounded your hands, man"
"Pete will be mad at me. He freaks out when I hurt myself."
"Does he freak out?!?! Look at what you've done down there."
"I got excited."
"We leave in 10 minutes, Vegas. Cleaning team is coming."
"Alright. Have fun." (in English)
"I will."
...
When I entered the dark basement, the old mafia boss was bleeding, hanged by chain from the ceiling.
"You are dripping blood like a slaughtered pig. Oh...not a fair comparison to a pig, my little brother would say. I was told to go for the head, and here I am... dealing with a Taiwanese mafia boss. Are you having fun watching your son getting beaten up?"
I point to the screen projected onto the dirty basement wall.
"You little bastard. You will pay for this! Tang Yi promised to share my business with you and Kamol?! Go dreaming!"
"Tang Yi is not involved. It's not a business issue. You and your fucking son touched who you should not. We can't let it pass."
"What?!"
"Don't you know yet?! Your son has no cure. Let's prevent him from harming other people."
We watch Kamol killing his disgusting son. His corpse joins the other two friends killed by Kamol.
"I'll kill you both with my bare hands!" The old man shouts for a while.
"No, you won't."
"Is this because of Tang Yi's employees?!"
I look at all the old man's guards hanging from the ceiling that I've tortured and killed, especially those that beat Pete. Their bones broken and their faces mangled to appease my wrath.
"You messed with the wrong people."
"That sale boy and that slut ..."
"Master Chen...you should keep your mouth shut." I come closer to him and cut his lips with my knife. Then I stick the same knife in his stomach and slowly spins around.
"...that slut...Tianshi..."
He grunts...blood flows from his busted mouth...
"Tianshi?!" I look at him startled.
Fuck!
"I thought my old eyes were deceiving me..." more blood comes out of its mouth because of internal lethal damage... "...and you..."
"What about him?!What about me? Speak!!"
I turn to Kamol's bodyguards. "Get him down! Help me stop the stomach bleeding!"
He laughs.
Damn bastard...he decides to open his mouth now?!
"...revenge on us..." words come out like a sigh from the dying body.
"Revenge for what?!Who?"
He fixes his gaze on me before it becomes empty.
"Kan and ..." he says with one last breath...and dies.
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