𝓜𝓮𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰[5]

Zee POV

I was treated nicely by everyone here; I was given my own bedroom; I met with the other family members; I learned that Kinn was married to the guy named Porsche; Tankhun was the oldest son, and he is known as the crazy wild guy. I like him a lot; he may be annoying, but his energy brings others into a better mood. I met Kimhan again during a meeting set up by the family.

Kimhan is dating Porchay, Porsche's younger brother. I like Chay; he's sweet; Kim doesn't like to get involved with the family; he stays far away from everyone; but he does anything Chay asks him.

I met Vegas and Pete Therrapanyakun. Pete, I learned, was a former guard of this house; he was the head guard for P'Khun. Vegas is scary; he has a weird personality, but he seems like a good boyfriend and big brother. Macau is Vegas' only brother. He has zero involvement with the mafia, but he does have good-fighting skills.

During that meeting, I also learned the dislike everyone has for Korn; there was heavy tension in the room when he arrived.

That same night, I learned about the event that occurred between the major and minor families. The night Korn shot his own brother. There were still many unsolved mysteries to the event.

After two weeks of adjusting, I began my training. I was told Kimhan would train me for half of the time and I would join shadow guards afterwards. I learned about the family business, everything they do, and their purpose for it.

I learned about their family's private life from P'Khun. He would send his guards Pol and Arm every night after my study session was over and have me watch a series with him, and he would tell me all the issues with his crazy family. As he states, "crazy."

After learning about the business and how it worked, I began combat training during the second week. Kimhan arrived at my room at 4:30 in the morning. I was a little surprised to see him there. He told me to get dressed and come downstairs.

I would be waking up at 4:30 in the morning for a few years after that.

During our first training session, Kim took me to his own studio, where I learned from Chay that Kim was a musician and Chay was working to become one. They were working on opening an entertainment company called KXC Entertainment.

It would become one of the legal mafia businesses and a place for them to round up more guards.

During my first training session, Kim made me do a few stretches at first and some jogging. He didn't do anything tough like I had expected. I was told by Vegas that Kim's training would leave me drained.

Kim showed me a trick that day. He showed me how to unlock any locked object using another sharp object. "This is a trick all the Theerapanyakun children know." He told me

Kim told me to be up before he arrived at 4:30. He won't be able to train me if he has to come and wake up like that.

The second day was more tough. We began with stretching, then swimming. He showed me how to untie myself underwater; I almost drowned; we did combat practice; I was good at hand combat; and I had to learn to fight in order to survive in my neighborhood.

After combat, he would make me run, then do boxing, and then so on; I was completely exhausted. I guess Vegas was right; my body was completely drained, my legs hurt so badly, and Kim had told me if I fell behind, I would have to do extra training at the end.

He taught me how to shoot a gun, how to understand people's body language, how to bring fear into people's hearts, and much more.

Without realizing it, our time together was coming to an end. Kim had trained me in preparation for shadow guard training. I had grown taller over time, my muscles had become more toned, and I was a lot healthier, stronger, and more confident.

"Do you know what the shadow guards are?" Kim asked me during our last training session: I was doing pushups. I stopped and sat up.

"Yesh, Mr. Korn has told me everything about them." I replied to him.

"You know, my pa is not a very trustworthy person," Kim tells me, not making eye contact. Instead, he's watching Chay, who is running on the treadmill. Chay comes here from time to time during our training to do some exercise or keep us company.

P'Kim doesn't let him come talk to us during training; Chay always feels bad about how much Kim makes me do; and Kimhan does not like seeing the man he loves frown.

"You love him a lot, don't you?" I asked, looking at Kim. He nodded his head, a smile tugging in the corner of his lips.

"I know Mr.Korn is not trustworthy, and everyone in the family wants him dead," I tell Kim, going back to doing pushups. He turns his gaze towards me and raises his eyebrow.

"Tell me, Zee, if I asked you to join me in plotting my father's murder, would you agree? '' Kim asks abruptly.

I learned a lot about Korn from everyone; the guards at the mansion don't say much about him, except for Pol and Arm. I also learned many things about Korn from Vegas and Pete; they constantly visit the major family for meetings, and I notice the heavy tension between the major and minor every time.

I exhale heavily and stop doing pushups. Sitting up, I look at Kim, who's staring at me with curiosity in his eyes.

"Mr. Korn hasn't done anything to me; that would make me want to hate him, but I believe the more I learn about him, the more troublesome his existence sounds, P'kim." I replied to his question. He nods at me and looks back at Chay.

"My father wants to throw you into a very deep, dark hole, one that you can't get out of. He won't be there directly, but everything that happens to you during the shadow guards training will be on his order. My father has done many terrible things. He has many secrets that we will never know." Kim says quietly

"When you want to murder him just like everyone else does, give me a call," Kim says, smiling.

"I believe there is more to your story. Zee , do you really think Pa would just bring a kid into the family business and treat him with so much kindness? And train him with shadow guards ? just because he stabbed some guy " Kim questions me.

I don't give him an answer. I know there are many questions regarding how I got myself here, but I never put too much thought into it. I am happy to have a roof over my head. In a way, I am grateful to Korn.

Grateful to Korn

I will regret those words.

Korn Theerapnyakun was killed after a few years; Kim cut down the boundaries of major and minor family titles.

Kim took leadership for a few years before handing the position to me; he didn't like the mafia world much, and Chay would always worry for his safety. 

He gave the title of leader to me.

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The meeting room was gathered with all the family members, including some of the top shadow guards; most of them were Zees' friends.

The room had a glowing atmosphere, despite everything that's going on. When the family is all together, it brings everyone joy.

Chay and Kim enter the room, and Chay is immediately pulled into another bone-crushing hug. "Buddy, I haven't seen you in a long time." Macau Chay's best friend yells out, hugging him. Chay laughs and hugs him back.

Kimhan glares at Macau but doesn't say anything. He makes his way towards the table in the middle and takes a seat on the right side next to the head seat.

"How is my dear cousin doing?" A man wearing a silk-green, dark T-shirt asks, taking the seat in front of Kim. "I hear you let the Italians bomb us, cousin," he says in a mocking tone, taking a sip of wine he had in his hand.

"Shut up, Vegas; no need to be so cocky," Kim replied, rolling his eyes. Vegas laughs and chugs down all the wine. "Would you like a drink, Kimmy?" He asks, raising an eyebrow. Kim glares at him. "Don't call me Kimmy Bastard," Kim says angrily, lifting his middle figure up to Vegas's face. Vegas rolls his eyes and walks away.

Vegas walks towards Pete and wraps his arms around his waist. "This mosquito," TanKhun says, making a gagging face. Vegas makes an annoyed face and pulls Pete alongside him.

"Come on, everyone, to the table." A tall man says, He has fierce eyes; they resemble those of a tiger." He's wearing a beige-coloured suit with a black T-shirt underneath.

"P' Max," Chay calls out to the guy as he is making his way to the table.

"what's up?" Max asks

"Where Nong Nat '' Thankhun says before Chay is able to get the words out of his mouth, Chay looks at Khun and points at him, gesturing to the fact he was going to ask the same question. "He has a photoshoot at KXC," Max replies. Chay and Khun both make an O face and nod at him.

Everyone makes their way to the table and takes a seat. Zee eventually enters wearing a black suit; he has a slight shadow underneath his eye. He smiles as he sees everyone chatting with each other. The family gatherings they have every month keep their bond strong.

"How have you been, Zee?" Kim asks, looking towards him. Zee opens his mouth to reply, but Vegas says, "Wow, you didn't care to ask your poor cousin who got shot that question." Vegas says, placing a hand on his heart. Kim mutters something under his breath and ignores Vegas, who's about to say something else, but Pete pinches him on the hip. Vegas looks towards Pete and pouts, and Pete gives him a stern look, shushing Vegas up.

"I'm alright." Zee replies, smiling.

"Everyone seems happy," he pauses, looking around. "But where is my group of Elit shadow guards?" Zee asks, furrowing his brows and looking towards Max. "They got caught up in some personal issues," Max sighs, giving Zee a half smile. "Those two kids are always having some love issues and then taking everyone to create a apology, How romantic," Khun says dramatically, placing his hand on his head and one on his heart.

Despite being elite shadow guards, most of them are pretty childish sometimes. Zee being close friends with them, lets it slide. He has trust in them to be there when their presence is most required.

"P'Kinn, P' Porsche, what did you find out from the site?" Zee asks, turning his gaze towards the pair. "The  Italians, once again," Kinn says, followed by an exasperated sigh.

"As expected" Kim mumbles out

"Well, I want to have an in-depth discussion about this later on with the presence of our shadow guards, but for now, let's enjoy this family gathering." Zee says, clasping his hands together and smiling.

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---"I find myself not being able to recognise the type of person I act like time to time, Korn has made the impact he wanted to on me, Kimhan was labled the failed science experiment, the game of chess he played as practice, and I Zee became the second trail, the one that succeeded, his final game of chess—he may be dead but he made his impact." ---

Zora : Guess whooo the two people having love issues are??

Kinda losing motivation , running out of ideas , I kinda wanna get to the main point but than I don't want things to happen to quick , I need like the right moment for the events to occur.

Well see you next chapter :)