Life as We have never Known

A Pot and a Lid (1)

It all started as a challenge... Kim was a brat that way...

The Firm had managed to land one of its biggest contracts since Kim took over and while it would make Kim's father utterly proud, the contract promised an immense workload that would truly test the capabilities of the firm and the ones leading it... but Kim being as confident as he was... was hell-bent on making sure to make that one of the best works he had ever done.

So Kamol being the attentive partner he was, voiced his concerns during the celebratory dinner he held for Kim that night...

"Don't you think that would make you overwork? I don't want you to work yourself sick..."

Kim shook his head, in his mind everything was perfect... the work would be perfect and it all would run like a well-oiled machine...

"No... It would be ok, the firm is more than occupied to do that..."

Kamol raised a single eyebrow...

"Kim?"

"Yes?"

"You do recall what you usually do when I overwork, Don't you?"

Kim narrowed his eyes at him... while he appreciated the concern, he was tempted to raise to the challenge.

"I am not going to work myself to the ground... you will see... and If I do - which will never happen - I allow you to take all the needed actions to stop me..."

"Such big words, My love..."

"I am serious... If I start overworking... you know what to do... But I won't... I will show you the real meaning of balancing work and life..."

Kamol smirked at him... and with that their challenge commerced...

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Kim was so bloody wrong...

He was so sure that the firm could pull the job smoothly and he was soon to be proven wrong, it all started once the work started crumbing up which required everyone to pull overtime to barely wrap up the day-to-day work

and to add gas to the fire, May got food poisoning and was admitted to the hospital for a few days, one thing led to another and the workload was starting to go out of control, The entire firm was tearing at the seams to get things done properly in their due date...

Kim was slowly losing control of his time as well...

He started skipping lunch breaks with Kamol to wrap up his work which worried Kamol enough that he had to bring their lunch to Kim's office and sway him into eating a few bites... usually, Kamol would feed him while he continued to do whatever he was doing, and while it made Kim's heart flutter in his chest, he would have preferred it to be in a different circumstances

and then he started going home late to wrap it up... all the while Kamol would eye him and make sure he had enough sustenance and water... he would wait for him to finish late at night to take him home... yet to stop him... Kim kept waiting for it to come but Kamol let him rein free...

and then things started spiraling even worse...

It was the smallest of things, he would go back home and then take his laptop and spend the rest of the night staring at the screen trying to get any work done... Kamol would sit with him, calmly... drinking, reading, and sometimes working by himself... he didn't comment on it even once... but he would pull Kim when he had deemed that the night had run long enough to bed with him...

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Kamol was adamant about proving that Kim lacks as much self-control as Kamol himself when work was in the equation...