SunsetxVibes

Chapter 5

“The Lost Man in the Emerald Suit”

The sweet aroma of Kannika flowers wafts all around. That exquisite aroma hits the high nose of a person sleeping peacefully on a soft bed in one of the main rooms of the Chanthawimon clan's mansion.

That scent that had disappeared from Salin's life since his eighteenth birthday and on this night, that scent that evoked a great feeling in him, is together with the figure of the boy of his dreams, has returned again.

"You?"

His thin lips move and ask the person standing in an emerald green silk dress, its folds almost reaching the ankles. just like in the Leadership Period for the Golden Sangwan, all adorned with colored diamonds.

"I woke you up again." 

The muscular body comes in and stands looking at the little person with a beautiful face lying on the bed and on the pillow leaves a Kannika flower for him.

"Where have you been?" Salin turns on his side to look at Kannika's white flower and lifts it into his slender hand, inhaling it wistfully.

For as long as he can remember, this person always appeared on full moon nights, leaving a Kannika flower on his pillow and disappearing at dawn.

"I did not go anywhere."

His hand gently strokes the silky hair, while his deep black eyes look at the little person with affection.

"Then why didn't you come sooner?"  His eyes widen with tears.

"I could not come." 

"Why?"

Brrrr Brrrr!

The rose gold phone on the bedside table starts to vibrate, waking him up. His eyelids begin to slowly open, adapting to the morning sunlight that enters the luxurious room through the transparent curtains.

The slender hand grabs the phone and answers the call, promptly, his eyelids closing again due to the fever mixed with drowsiness, leaving aside the voice on the other end of the line.

[You! Bastard, you can't fall asleep like this. Wake up now, today your husband called a meeting at nine in the morning for the whole department!] Says his best friend, shouting as if it were an alarm.

Salin hears the words 'the whole department' from his best friend's mouth and quickly forces himself to open his eyes to respond to his good friend Pimnapat, he sits on the bed and stares with his beautiful eyes at the digital clock on the wall.

"Hey! That's all, thanks for calling, I'm about to take a shower." He responds immediately, because personal matters need to be handled quickly.

Salin immediately cuts off the call, before rushing to the bathroom to take a shower and get dressed appropriately.

Last week he was on sick leave all week, if he didn't show up today, surely the personnel department would have contacted the university by sending such a matter.

He shouldn't have gone to Hong Kong with the President.

He hurries down the stairs to the center of the villa, opens his arms to put on his usual shoulder bag, while looking for the car keys. The cough of his beloved rich grandfather, a highranking magnate, stops him.

"Why didn't you use the elevator if you're in such a hurry, Lin?" He asks his eldest grandson, who has been sleeping in the villa since he returned from Hong Kong last Friday evening.