His Heir Was Meant for My Sister, but the Kingpin Wanted Me novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: Hot Pot

"You have a hickey," Fah said, "and a driver."

She said it over a steaming pot of broth at the hot pot place across from the science faculty.

A piece of pork belly dangled from her chopsticks.

Phat sank lower on his stool.

"It's a mosquito bite."

"It's the shape of a mouth." Fah dropped the pork into the pot and pointed her chopsticks at the window. "And that is a black car with a big man in it who has been staring at this restaurant for forty minutes."

"That's Mee."

"Phat," Fah said.

"He's my sister's friend's driver. He's helping us. I'm living in a river house in Nonthaburi now, it's temporary, there's a dog."

"Phat."

He put down his bowl.

Fah was nineteen, five foot two in her platform sneakers, and she had been his lab partner since orientation week.

She had a look on her face he'd seen when a titration came out exactly right.

"Tell me everything," she said. "Start with the mouth."

He told her.

He told her about the man on the lab floor and the two gunmen and the stitches.

He left out the bench, and she made him go back and put the bench in.

By the end she had her face in both hands and her shoulders shaking.

"He's Chakrit Lertsiri."

"Yes," Phat said.

"You slept with Chakrit Lertsiri. You sewed Chakrit Lertsiri. Phat, you have been on a three-year plan to ask the TA for a second reference letter, and you took the kingpin of Bangkok home in a lab."

"He didn't come home. He left," Phat said.

"And now you live in his house."

"In the next room from my sister, who is about to carry his child," Phat said.

Fah stared at him, and she stopped laughing.

"Oh, no," she said. "That's a mess."

"I know."

"That's a really good mess, though," Fah said.

"Fah."

"I'm just saying it has a cast." She reached across the table and squeezed his wrist. "If he hurts you, I'll boil him. I have access to a fume hood."

He laughed, a little wetly, and picked his chopsticks up again.

It was the first hour since Thursday he had not felt alone in it.

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