Darkest Safe Place - VegasPete Fanfic 18+

DSP 6 - Pete in Chiang Rai

Vegas

"Mr. Fox really has a lot of connections with other powerful people. He even got this warehouse for free. Really impressive, Khun Marisa." Khun Tham said.

We reached the first warehouse here in Chiang Rai. This warehouse was given to Mr. Fox by a rich family here in Chiang Rai to show gratitude to him for helping them extend their business and reach a bunch of American investors.

I just noticed that lately, Mr. Fox has been introducing a lot of American investors to Thai mafias, even Khun Marisa suggested me to talked to some of them.

"Well, dad has been working so hard to introduce Asian investors to Westerns. I think it can actually help to strengthen the industry here in Thailand. Don't you think so, Khun Vegas?" Khun Marisa asked.

I looked around the warehouse. It is very isolated but it doesn't look suspicious at all. I think the products can be kept safe here.

"In the span of how many years of being here in this kind of business, we only have convinced and attracted Asian people as Europeans and Western people don't really trust us. They see us as a bunch of incompetent businessmen." I said and turned to look at Khun Marisa. "It's great to know that Mr. Fox have observed this problem and tried to do something about it. I can say that, we can now have a better reputation to the American investors. Thanks to him." I said.

Khun Marisa smiled at me and walked towards me. "I really love how you think, Khun Vegas. You really resembles my dad. The both of you are smart and I bet no one would even dare to make fool of you." She said and wrapped her hand on my arm.

"I was just raised like that, Khun Marisa. I refuse to believe that we are incompetent, it just happened that people in this industry tend to drag each other down but instead of bringing themselves to the top, they just brought the whole country's industry in vain." I said and noticed how she removed her hand on my arms.

"That is such a nice observation, Khun Vegas." Khun Chen said. "But I'm sure you do know the saying 'business is business' right? No matter how kind you are, when you're in this type of industry, you have no choice but to do everything to remain powerful. At the end, the most powerful will dominate and those who are called to be incompetent are going to vanish." He added and stepped closer to me. "How about you, Khun Vegas? Isn't your family one of the most known here in Thailand? But what do you think will a stranger do to his competitor just to be powerful when even people who are related can disown each other just to remain on the top?"

My eyes automatically squinted at him. I stepped closer to him and grabbed his collar. "What are you trying to say then? That my family is thirsty for power to the point that we make our own competition? Khun Chen, shouldn't you be more concern about how your family doesn't even come close to the reputation our family have?"

Khun Chen grabbed my collar too and paused for awhile. After some second of silence, he chuckled and let go of my collar and fixed it. "I'm not competing with you Khun Vegas. I'm just curious on how the Theerapanyakun see business. Is it blood over power or the other way? But as what Khun Marisa said, you are very smart to be deceived by anybody because we won't be here if you are not a great business partner. Right, Khun Tham?" He said and removed my hands on his collar.

"Khun Chen is right. You are great, Khun Vegas or else we wouldn't be wasting our time here and Mr. Fox won't even give us any chance to gather here. So, we should enjoy each other's company and hope that our products will sell easier this time. Khun Marisa, what else do you have to show us?" Khun Tham said.

Khun Marisa smiled at him and walked towards the inner part of the warehouse. "Aside from this warehouse and the products brought from Bangkok, my father actually sent something interesting for you to try. Should we sit down and talk about it?"