Chapter Nine
It was late at night, the rain still hasn’t stop, better yet was getting worse, San was in the bungalow with Lalin, sitting on the chair reading the documents, Lalin was sitting on the bed under the cover, she was tired but not wanting to fall asleep with San in the same room. San was going to leave earlier but it started raining so he decided to stay to wait until it stopped raining but it hasn’t. Lalin sigh loudly hugging the pillow.
“Don’t you think you should go home now?” Lalin question getting tired of waiting for him to leave.
“No, I’ve decided to stay the night, I’m not walking back in this weather” San said closing the documents, walking to the bed.
Lalin backed up to the headboard and threw a pillow at him to stop him “Well you aren’t sleeping on the bed; the floor is where you will be sleep” Lalin demand.
“No, I am sleeping the bed, I make the decisions not you” San said getting on the bed.
Lalin push him off the bed, blocking his way “I will not share a bed with you” Lalin said raising her hands.
San stood there with his arms on his waist looking at Lalin, exhausted and annoyed, he didn’t want to deal with her at the moment… Though he did actually like the view in front of him, Lalin was wearing a white shirt with shorts, San smirk touching his lips while looking at her fine body, Lalin frown looking at his expression, then knowing what he was thinking she grabbed another pillow, throwing it at him but this time he caught it and threw it on the bed.
“Really, if you didn’t want to sleep tonight and wanted to do something else, you should’ve told me earlier instead of waiting this long” San said smirking at Lalin.
“What, no!” Lalin raised her voice getting scared, she tried backing away but San grabbed her pulling her into him.
Pushing her down on the bed with his weight, with one hand hold her neck while the other grabbing her legs, San was kissing her neck, smelling, sucking, moving down to her chest, Lalin was yelling at San to get off her with both hands pushing against his chest. San moved off her a little and smirked.
“You’re smell is luring me” San said while moving one of his hands up her legs to the edge of her shirt and gently tugging it, he knew what he was doing, teasing her like this was fun, the look in her eyes was filled with many things, frighten and wondering whether she is a goner or not.
Lalin was kicking her legs around trying to get San off her but without her realizing she was creating a great friction against San’s weapon, San could feel it growing and looked down at her grinning, he could tell she doesn’t know what she was causing, Lalin looked up at San and saw him looking at her with a big grin, closing her eyes, she could tell she was a goner, what has she done! San bend down again but this time catching her lips, kissing her deep, soon opening her mouth with his tongue he welcomed himself in without her permission. Lalin scream but of course no sound was coming out, her eyes wonder around the room, no way is she letting him do this to her, she is not becoming his wife. Lalin could feel his hands on her shorts, unbuttoning the buttons, next minute hearing a ZIP, she knew he has gotten her pants, panicking even more, she looked on the right and finally caught sight of the clock, she reach for the clock grabbing it, she hit San on the head just as he slightly pulled her pants down, San groan falling off the bed onto the floor. Without hesitation she pulled her pants up and fixed it before running into the bathroom and locking the door. San got up holding onto his head, he looked at the bathroom door and walked to it, banging on the door.
“Lalin, how dare you” San said in anger.
“If I don’t, then you would’ve raped me” Lalin yelled back pushing her weight against the door, touching her chest, she sigh in relief, breathing heavily, she slowly sat down against the door, she was not leaving this room until he leaves.
San sat down on the bed touching his head, lucky she didn’t crack his head, he took a glance at the door and sigh, the pain replaced his lust for her immediately, he got under the cover and turn the light to deem and closed his eyes. Exhausted he soon fell asleep, Lalin whom was still in the bathroom also fell asleep on the floor…
Morning came, San was already up, he was well asleep last night but didn’t hear Lalin coming out of the bathroom. Walking to the door, he knocked on the door, waking her up, Lalin quickly stood up looking around her, relief that she was still in the bathroom, she turn to the door.
“What” she asked.
“Time to get up, I’ll give you 2 minutes to wash up, you won’t be laying around anymore, I’m going to give you some chores” San said smirking.
Lalin turn to the sink and looked in the mirror, god she is a mess, sleeping on the floor was hard and cold but it was better than sleeping in the same bed as San. Quickly washing her face and brushing her teeth, she looked at her reflection and sigh, when will she be able to go home, she miss her family. Slowly opening the door, she took a peek out the door, not seeing any sight of San, she smiled and walked out, closing the door behind her she walked to the bed and looked at the open door, before she could make another escape, San grabbed her hands and spun her around, sitting her down, he tied her hands together.
Lalin struggled but San pulled her up “What are you doing, stop! Untie me right now!” Lalin yelled swinging her hands around.
“Like I said, you are doing chores from now on” San said pulling her along.
“Well why are you tying me up like this, I’m not an animal” Lalin question pulling against San.
“If I don’t then you are going to run, am I right” San asked her turning to her.
Lalin raised a brow and nodded, he did have a point, finally getting to San’s house, they ran into Mim and Phet in the garden.
“San, we figured you were going to stay with Lalin last night, I hoped you didn’t mind us not double checking with you” Phet said leaning on the shovel.
“That’s fine, Mim, I want to ask you a favour, can you go buy some clothes for Lalin at the market please” San asked smiling at her “Also while you are there, Phet and yourself can grab lunch or so, Lalin will be taking over your chores”.
“Just Lalin, that’s a lot of work San” Mim stated with worried.
“That is the point, that way she is too busy working that she won’t have time to escape” San replied pulling her upstairs.
Mim and Phet looked at them walking, both turning to each other with questioning looks. They put their things down and headed to the boat, Mim sat down next to Phet as he started the boat.
“Darling, have you found anything out about Lalin” Mim asked looking at the view.
“I still don’t know, but since we have the whole day free, I will call Sak and Pon to see if they know what is happening, knowing San, these two are the only people San would trust” Phet looked at his wife smiling…
San closed the door and locked it, he then untied Lalin pointing to the cupboard, “the things to clean the house is in that cupboard, I am free all day today so you can take all the time you need, I will be sitting right there” San said sitting down on the couch, turning the TV on and opened his bags of chips. “Also, if you plan on escaping, there are only two doors in this house, the front door here and the back down, but the back door is locked and the only way to open it is with this key” San said showing Lalin the keys grinning at her.
Lalin sigh looking at San watching TV, “great not only is she being kidnapped but being forced to do chores of her captive’s house” Lalin thought as she walked to the cupboard opening the door, looking in she grabbed the cloth’s and a bowl, filling the bowl half way she started wiping the tables and benches. Soon she was wiping the windows. She took glances at San here and there, hoping he would either fall asleep or go to the bathroom, but he was just sitting there watching TV, eating. She looked around frowning, he was right, she checked all the windows in the rooms, but the windows are all locked and the back door was locked like San had said. Lalin got to the last room, which might be San’s room but the door was locked.
“Hey, there is one room that is locked, come open it” Lalin yelled at San.
“If it is locked, it means don’t go in there, not hard to understand” San yelled back shaking his head.
Lalin frown, rolling her eyes and continue on, finally hitting 12:30pm, she was done cleaning the house, by the looks of it, Mim and Phet also lives the house with San, as one of the rooms have their things, she thought Mim and Phet would have their own house. Lalin put the things back and stood in front of San blocking the TV.
“I’ve finished, what now” Lalin asked.
“That was quick, well it’s lunch time so get cooking” San said grinning at Lalin pointing to the kitchen.
Lalin opened her mouth wanting to argue but stopped, “quickly get thing done and then she will be able to leave without San trying to rape her” she thought clutching her hands.
At the main land, Phet and Mim was at the noodle restaurant in the markets with Sak and Pon as they explain what had happened. Mim and Phet looked at each other with an oooooh look.
“So that is why, we did asked San but he wouldn’t tell us” Phet said eating his noodles looking annoyed.
“Since you two live on the island and grew up with San, we are telling you, apart from that no one else knows about this, only us four, so for safety, do not tell anyone and do not tell Lalin where we are, make sure all technology and phones are off in the house as well.” Sak ordered eating the chicken.
“Sak, I am not one of the workers, I am your friend, having San boss me around is good enough” Phet said throwing a spoon at Sak.
Sak and Pon laughed shaking their head, “We have been around San too much” Pon said eating. “Just wondering how is Lalin doing” Pon asked.
“Well she has been trying to escape many times already, I don’t know if she knows how to get tired, San is getting her to do some of our work now so she isn’t laying around like before” Mim said frowning. “I feel sorry for her, she doesn’t have anything to do with this”
“I know, nor does Prima, it was a fight between the Pongsakorn and Wongwilai mainly their fathers, San is not only our friend but he is our boss, we cannot go against him” Sak said.
“There is n0thing we can do without getting San into trouble is there?” Phet asked putting the chopsticks together while leaning back against the chair.
They all nod in agreement and got up, Mim and Phet excused themselves to go shopping as Pon and Sak went back to work.
Lalin pour some soy sauce into the pan, stirring the sauce into the noodles, smelling the food she smiled, smells exactly how her mother makes me, she looked over at San whom looked like he was not going anywhere anytime soon, sighing she just wants to go home, she doesn’t want to be part of this game, she frown taking a deep breath in, annoyed she grabbed the bottle of soy sauce looking at it.
“Why not” she said giggling taking the lid off, about to pour more in the pan, a hand came stopping her.
“I know what you are thinking, if you put more in, I will force you to eat it all” San said appearing out of nowhere standing behind her holding onto her hand.
Lalin closed her eyes, turning to San with a surprise look, not realizing that his face was a few inches away from her, their nose touch, eyes looking at each other, everything seems to have stopped, San looking at Lalin smiling, he never knew how cute she was, her frowning eyebrows with small brown eyes full of confusion, moving to her nose then lips, heh stared at her lips, soft with a shade of light pink, remembering the taste of her lips last night, he slowly lean towards her, for a change Lalin didn’t move standing there looking back at San as he came towards her and with just one more second their lips would touch, however Lalin’s hand came flying across with the spatula and hit San sending him across the room and falling on his face.
“Lalin!!” San yelled rolling over onto his back touching his head, “Not my head again” he groaned.
“Nice try” Lalin said turning off the gas and put some of the stir-fried noodle onto the plates.
San got up touching his face staring at Lalin as she sat down on the couch, he frowned grabbed his plate “What are doing, sit on the floor” he said sitting next to her pushing her away.
“No, if you have a problem you can sit on the floor” Lalin replied eating.
San shook his head and ate, really not knowing how to argue back nor wanting to since he wants a break from all the running around and arguing. They both just sat down eating in peace for once, San was enjoying one thing for sure and that was her food…
“What do you mean he isn’t in again” Kawin asked on the phone as he spun his chair around in his office.
“He hasn’t come in all morning and I asked around, the staff’s told me he will for sure be in tomorrow morning” Meka’s men said assuring Kawin.
“Good, I will go tomorrow” Kawin said hanging up.
Prima knocked the door and walked in “Kawin, the meeting is about to start”.
Kawin nodded and got up grabbing some files walking to Prima, he smiled and held her hand as they walked to the meeting room together. The workers all looked at them smiling and whispering at each other.
“How cute are they” one girl said.
“Totally agree with you, Ya” replying another staff.
They got to the meeting room, Kawin went to sit at the front desk bowing to everyone as they bow back and sat down.
“So, our next project will be starting a new resort somewhere new, I want this company to spread and be well known for tourist attractions, I’m looking for something along the line of lots of nature and animals, also being not far from attraction areas, our past resorts have been in the city and all high in technology, I’m looking for something… simple” Kawin said opening his computer while looking at his team.
“Good idea boss, well if we are looking for something with a lot of nature and attractions then I would recommend Koh Yao Nai, or other islands, there’s so many islands to visit including diving areas and rock climbing” Tom suggested.
“But I’m thinking of going North, somewhere around Chiang mai or Chiang rai, its surrounded by mountains, lots of flower fields and animals, I went with my boyfriend to Chiang mai and it was incredible, elephants and tigers” Kate point out.
“I like both options, though Chiang mai sounds like a great choice for this project, Tom write your idea down for the islands, that will be our next project.” Kawin said typing down the ideas.
“Kate, Tom, have both your teams research for areas that won’t involve cutting down many trees and with great top view, Prima, Mook and Peter your team will start designing ideas, I want something simple, nothing high technology.” Kawin explain again.
They all turn to each other nodding, started to discuss the ideas and researching. Kawin looked at Prima smiling, Prima hasn’t worked with his team for long but was getting along with everyone well, Kawin grabbed her hand getting her attention. Prima turn to him smiling.
“I was thinking, when we go have a look at the area, why not have our honeymoon there” he suggested kissing her hand.
Prima blushed looking down “We are going there for work” Prima said looking at her computer.
“Have your honeymoon boss, work won’t intrude when you have us” Mook said giggling.
“Why not do some homework while you’re on it” Peter said winking at them.
Everyone turned to Peter throwing pens and books at him while holding back their laugh, Mook pinch his arm then hitting it constantly.
“Peter! This is our boss, don’t be inappropriate” Mook said glaring at him.
“I do agree with Peter” Kawin said laughing along with everyone.
The team all looked at each other covering their mouths and giggled. Prima turn to Kawin hitting his arm, blushing even more. Kawin laughed rubbing her hand with his thumb. He stared at her while she stared back. Kawin knew he definitely still loves this woman, Prima on the other hand, he doesn’t know if she is doing this because of a duty as a wife or she is actually starting to accept him...
Reaching the garden, San pulled out the chair and sat down opening his book, Lalin stood there holding onto the basket and looked at San, there was many types of vegetables including fruits.
“You want me to be harvest all of these fruits and vegetables?” Lalin asked in shocked.
“No, I want you to harvest the ripe fruits and fully-grown vegetables” San replied smirking at her.
Lalin took a deep breath in and breathe out through her mouth “work for now, look around your surroundings and plan an escape” Lalin thought and bend down picking the vegetables.
San sat there looking at her, he looked down at his book and continue reading. Lalin looked at him and look back at the plants, looking up at the sky she felt the sun ray hitting her, closing her eyes and pouting. Mim and Phet walked towards them and looked at Lalin, sighing they both sat down next to San.
“San, isn’t this a bit too much work, Mim and I can do it” Phet suggested worried about Lalin.
“Keep her busy to avoid escaping” San point out looking up at them both.
Mim got up putting the shopping bags on the chair and walked to Lalin grabbing another basket carrying it with her. “I’ll help pick the fruits” Mim said to Lalin.
Lalin looked up at Mim smiling, “Thank you” Lalin said.
“No need, this is also my job” Mim laughed.
“Mim” San said with a warning voice.
“San” Mim said back at him playfully.
San looked at her with one eyebrow up, “Mimnarit”.
“San, this is my garden, I wanted this so I have the right to do as I wish, I’m the one not wanting to buy things from the main land and grow my own garden so of course I have to help Lalin, so don’t stop me” Mim fire at him.
San and Phet’s eyes widen in shocked, San turn to Phet with questioning look but only receive the same look back, they just nod at each other and looked at Mim and Lalin. Lalin chuckled and mouthed thank you to Mim, Mim smiled back while climbing the ladder with the basket in one hand, Phet saw his wife and ran to her, grabbing the basket from her, holding it so she can climb up the ladder properly, Mim pinch his cheeks and thanked him. Lalin smiled at the sight and turn to San frowning, she continue her job but also looked around for an escape…