The Farang

Chapter 10

Lord Anantachai is sitting in his garden resting after the long day. Never satisfied, it wasn't enough to have the biggest house in the city but he had to have the biggest garden too. He forced his two former neighbors to sell him their houses for a ridiculously small amount of gold. After clearing that land, he had brought in exotic trees from far away as Northern India and China. His own private paradise garden, fruit trees all around and in between ran many small canals made to look like rivers, spanned with ornately carved foot bridges.

Never on to deny himself any pleasures, his appetites quite evident from his weight, at the end of his domain, he had a pleasure palace built just for his own use. The two floor house of pleasures has six big rooms. When he enters here he is transformed in to the emperor figure he likes to think he is. Here all his fantasies come true. And just like an emperor his pleasure palace was full with girls from all possible shapes and colors in the kingdom, and beyond. All brought here for his pleasure. Some he had imprisoned himself and others were gifts from nobles that he has under his control.

'I think I will have me some tall and white this evening.' He thinks to himself as he starts to walk slowly towards his pleasure palace, already loosening up the belt on his silk robe.

"Where do you think you're going fat man?" Ghao steps out of the shadows startling Anantachai. "We need to talk."

"My masters no longer have patience. You have failed yet again to marry the princess. I have new orders, and the celebrations give us a great opportunity."

"I can pressure Rama. He is weak and has no support. He will have to accept me soon."

"That is of no importance now. You may control the nobles, but the people still love their king. We have to take him out, and do it soon."

Anantachai realizes that to refuse now will only go bad for him. "What do you need me to do?"

"The Chinese elite forces are ten days away. Till they arrive you have to make sure the troops loyal to you know what they have to do. As for the troops loyal to the king I am sure you can find a way, in all the festivities, to get them drunk, to get them very drunk so that they will not be able to oppose us when the moment comes. Your perverted mind will see to that I am certain."

Not waiting for a reply, Ghao disappears back in to the shadows.

Anantachai shouts angrily for Tuk. The young man comes before his master, still unsure of the treatment he will receive for being truthful with the king.

"You disappointed me yesterday. The white devil you brought back can be a problem for us he is a distraction for the princess. You should have taken his head on the spot and brought just that back as a trophy."

He slaps the young man hard across the face. Then he tells him about the new plan, and about all the arrangement that have to be made.

"And do not disappoint me again, or I will take you to the furthest jungle and leave you there alone to talk to the wild."

Tuk remains standing there still trying to calm his anger from the slap. The fat bastards has already gone to his precious little pleasure palace, 'no doubt to slap some other poor victim as well.' He plants his fist in the mango tree to relieve his anger, whispering calming words.

"You will get what you deserve you bastard, you will get it soon."

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