"What the fuck is happening!" Pha shouted as he slammed his fist on the table hard.

"P'Pha careful, you will hurt your hand more." Yo unclenched his fist and examined his hand anxiously. Pha has been in a very bad mood ever since they came to know that Diane has spread a lot of rumours on the Kongthanin, which may proved to be very detrimental, especially when they are concentrating on improving their business relationship with Japan.

Pha let out a harsh breath and hugged Yo close to him, only his lover could keep him calm at the moment. They turned on the television and switch it off again almost immediately, the news has spread everywhere and Forth's reputation is being crushed by the nanosecond. Some anti groups have even created a website to bash then and it gained surprisingly many followers in such a short time. It seems like everything is going downhill but they weren't loosing hope, they have decided on conducting a press conference to clarify the matter.

After a tensed meeting with his father, they decided to give the press conference at the earliest possible and Forth was to apologise publicity to ease the tention that has gathered around the company. The rest of the day was very stressful and tiresome, they were doing their everything possible to gain the interest of Japan and to make their proposition more attractive so that Japan could invest generously. By evening Pha was forced to pause his work and took Yo home as promised.

"I didn't pay you much attention today, sorry baby." Pha said softly as he drove them to Yo's house.

"No it's ok P'Pha, I understand that your family and P'Forth are going through some difficulties and I sincerely hope that everything will be alright. It pained me to see P'Forth being blamed for nothing. How can the media accuse him like that!"

"That's the power of a woman, the world will support her because she is the most vulnerable and she attacked a very sensitive point. People will undoubtedly be on her side because they have been married for 7 years and there was not even a rumour about a pregnancy so they will automatically assumed that this may be the reason of their divorce. I am worried because they are really divorcing and P'Forth will never intentionally damage her reputation by revealing the truth."

Yo sighed sadly, "it's time like this that I resent P'Forth for being such a gentleman. I mean, he is innocent yet I have the feeling that he might take the full blame only because of his proper principles."

Pha stared off into the night and murmured to himself, "that's what I am afraid of."

Yo's parents were happy that Yo has finally come home but were sceptical when he announced that Pha will be staying too. His father was grumpy but he eventually came around the fact that his son can't live without this giant. They had a quiet dinner, each lost into their thoughts before Pha excused himself to go back to work. Yo sneaked into the guest room again and stayed by his side supporting him to his fullest. He even stayed until late at night and suggested some brilliant strategies which rendered Pha speechless.

"So this is what your father has been talking about."

Yo paused and looked at him, "talking about what?"

"He said that you have a lot of potential and you are going to conquer the world one day."

Yo blushed deeply as he retorted shyly, "conquer the world, this is so far fetched and I am not that special. He is just bias because he is my father."

Pha shook his head, "you don't even know what you are capable of. You are still young right now and can only think about food and sleep."

Yo smiled mischievously as he tilted his head towards him, "you are right but you forgot to add one thing, you. I always think about you day and night."

Pha grapped his chubby cheeks and squeezed, "don't try to seduce me baby, your father will come crashing here with gun blazing and I want to live for you."

"I want to live for you too P'Pha." Yo replied back happily as he smuggled against him. They spent the night in a restless sleep, each disturbed about the new scandal that has rocked the family, however this time they were sure that they weren't getting out of it unscratched.

The next morning they were shaken awake by loud singing. Pha shook his head to clear his confused mind and stared wide-eyed at the group in front of him. There was Mr and Mrs Panichayasawad, Kit, Ming, the driver and several housemaid. They were all clapping and singing on top of their voices. He looked at them in utter confusion, it was not his birthday nor was it Yo's so have they finally gone berserk?

Yo shook awake and started bouncing up and down on his bed, a huge smile on his bright face. Pha blinked, was it his birthday? Was he mistaken? Ohh shit, and he was planning his great surprise for the 20th, the date he was convinced that was Yo's birthday. The group stopped singing and Yo threw himself at them, hugging each and accepting wishes shyly and graciously. He then turned to his father with a squeal, "is that why you told me you had a surprise? Ohh dad thank you, I almost forgot."

His father smiled indulgently at him, "it's ok son, I know how busy you were these days with 'too much work' so we decided to keep quiet and surprise you."

He squealed again and hugged him then leaned back to look at him, "so where's my surprise?"

"It's downstairs, come on."

The group started leaving the room but Yo wouldn't budge. He extented an arm towards Pha and beckoned him. Pha nodded distractingly as he followed along, he was sweating big time. He hasn't had anything planned for his baby's birthday and here he thought he would have been the first to wish him. However, his mind was still swirling confusingly, his calendar was saying that Yo's birthday was on the 20th so what was happening? Did his staff made a mistake when they checked Yo's CV? His forehead tightened and he clammed his lips, he was so going to murder them one by one.

"What's up P'Pha? You look pale." Ming asked coming to walk by his side.

"I didn't know and have nothing planned for Yo."

"Ohhh, you better think of something fast else he will become a pain in the ass. You have to at least gift him something for his birthday month."

Pha stopped walking and turned to him in surprise, "birthday month? Not.... birthday day?"

Ming blinked at him then he started laughing loudly. Pha stared at him impatiently as the others continued downstairs. Ming snorted and controlled himself, "ohh god, you really didn't know did you. It's not his actual birthday, it's his birthday month. He actually celebrate the full month following his birthday until the end of it. Therefore, this is his birthday month."

Pha shook his head, he should have suspected it with Yo's spoiled nature. Ming tapped him in his shoulder and said, "don't worry, just a little something everyday until his big day will make him happy. His dad always throw the biggest party on his birthday but the birthday continues until the end of the month."

Pha heaved a heavy sigh and started walking again, "this is so Yo."

"I agree," Ming continued walking beside him, "and he does that for everyone! He will eat cake everyday for a month during my birthday month and claimed that it was my birthday cake. He also goes shopping everyday especially for his family's birthday month."

Ming continued on and on while Pha was already lost on what to gift him. Ming said something little so he was thinking about buying him his usual black roses and a promise ring. He nodded satisfied, at least that will be a good start. He came to a halt when he stepped foot outside to join the group. Yo was hugging his family and jumping up and down with excitement but Pha was falling deep in a dilemma.

If this is what he considered small, then he will go bankrupt by the end of the month! His father has gifted him the most expensive and rarest car in the world, with his own personalised golden plate. He closed his mouth before he started salivating, there was not a lot of things in the world that can render him speechless, but this goddess just did it. He walked to her and touched her sleek lines, marvelling at her beauty. Even Ming was beside him salivating.

"P'Pha, what do you think of my gift?" Yo shouted on his ear.

He opened his mouth and closed it again, there was simply no words to describe her beauty.

"P'Pha! If you're staring at it with those eyes one more time I will discard it I swear!"

Pha crashed down from his daze at once. He shook his head quickly and took Yo for a close hug, "of course not baby, I will never love anything or anyone more than you."

Yo nodded satisfied and looked up at him expectantly, "how about we go for a drive after breakfast?"

"On it, now go get ready fast. I don't want to arrive too late at the office."

Mr Panichayasawad cleared his voice and addressed Pha, "I suppose you are driving then?"

Pha frowned and looked uncertainly at Yo, "but shouldn't Yo drive? It's his gift after all."

"No, he will crash it without a minute."

"That only happened twice dad, how many times are you going to bring it up!" Yo interrupted in outrage.

"I'm not taking the risk son. If you're taking it to your office today then Phana will drive it."

Yo deflated and pouted at his dad but then he quickly regained his shiny self and hugged his dad again, "thank you for my wonderful gift dad."

"It's ok son, you know I promised you when you started working but i gave it to you a little late because so much was happening. But then again, I decided that it would be perfect for your birthday."

"It was a perfect timing." Yo then started walking back to his room and called out behind him, "come on P'Pha, we have to get ready fast."

Pha quickly joined him with his long legs and whispered in a strained voice, "wait, if you weren't going to drive it then why did you asked for it?"

"Ohh that, I wanted to upgrade my collection." He walked off leaving Pha choking behind.

They got ready fast enough and had a quick breakfast. Pha almost moaned when he got behind the wheels but quickly hold himself into check because Yo was watching him with his hawk eyes. However, Ming had no problem as he gushed endlessly in the backseat about this beauty. Pha stared at him from the corner of his eyes and scowled, whose idea was it to bring him along?

Oh yes, Yo's. When he asked Yo about what he wanted for his birthday, his baby immediately shouted about visiting the new shopping mall that has just opened and of course Ming wanted to join along. Pha has agreed and Yo was now happily carrying along some of his clothes and office wear to change back into for when they would return.

They arrived and Pha slowly followed slowly, he gave them one hour before they have to head up to the office. He was strolling around aimlessly searching for the perfect ring and he has already ordered for the flowers, all the while he was keeping an eye on Yo. He got distracted when he received an urgent call from his dad, "where are you?"

Pha tensed immediately and frowned, "why? What happened?"

"Get back here Phana, we are undergoing a crisis."

Pha cut the call and searched for Yo. He found him sipping his drink and carrying around his stuffed dog which Ming has gifted him.

(This is the first picture I'm inserting in this book because I couldn't resist.)

He signalled for Yo and he dragged Ming along towards him.

"What happened P'Pha?"

"We have to get back." Ming nodded and said, "you guys go, I will get back on my own."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes Yo, don't worry about me. I know all about the recent scandal so go back and take care of it."

They left and reached the office in record time. Yo went to change while Pha stalked to his father's office. He was getting a really bad premonition and he knew that it had something to do with the scandal. He opened the door and staggered at the sight of Forth. His big and powerful brother was draped on the sofa and appeared so helpless that Pha was shook. He had on big dark circles and was stiff with tention. His father was pacing back and forth but stopped when he saw Pha.

"About time, let go." He barked and the brothers followed behind without a word. The reached the conference room and Pha noticed that the board members were already gathered.

His father took a stand in front and started, "we all know why we are present here today. We lost 5 investors and we suspect that more will follow."

Pha took a sharp breath as the murmurs increased tenfold.

"This new scandal is destroying us, people are starting to hate the CEO and are blaming him. Investors don't want to associate themselves with a bad reputated CEO and our shares has decreased drastically. We are crashing down fast and if we don't get Japan support, then consider us more or less as finished. Moreover, there are rumours circulating about us selling our shares in bulk and there are many companies already vying for buying."

One board member stood up, "but we are still safe right? We can remedy the scandal and gain Japan support."

Another cleared his voice and said hesitatingly, "huhhh, we didn't hear from them since yesterday and they are also ignoring our contacts."

Forth sank deeper into his seat as Pha grew pale, if they lost Japan then it would be a lost of several billions! This may potentially destroy them and forced them to sell their shares at half the usual price.

His father turned to Forth, "how are you thinking of reverting the scandal?"

Forth sighed deeply, "I discussed with our publicity department all night. If I come right out and say that we lost love in our marriage naturally, it can backfire because we couldn't produce a child. And, I can't say that she was unfaithful, the public will accuse me of looking up for excuses and might hate me even more."

Pha added, "the biggest truth is you are really going to divorce her so the media will believe her no matter what."

"Then don't!" A member shouted.

"What?"

"Don't divorce her, ask her for forgiveness. We can persuade her to alleviate the matter by saying that she went a little too far but you both are happy and are not thinking of divorce at all. You can even start undergoing treatment with her so that she can get pregnant."

Another one added, "that's a good point. The rumours will die down eventually."

Mr Kongthanin snapped angrily, "will that convince our lost investors to deal with us again? Everyone will know that we did it to stop speculations. It's too late now, our reputation is already tarnished."

There was a heavy silence until the door was thrown open and Josh came bursting it. He looked panic stricken and was waving a paper in his shaking hand.

"Japan just sent an email, they refuse to invest and to do business with us. They apologied saying that our men are not thrust worthy. First there is P'Pha who broke his engagement to get together with a young boy and now P'Forth is throwing away his wife for all the wrong reasons. But they did specify that they appreciate our way ethics of work and they found no lacking except for the morals of our top workers."

The room grew deadly silent until Forth stood up abruptly throwing his chair back. His eyes were lifeless and his entire body was stiff like a rock. He turned to the members and said in a blank voice, "this is my fault and I will rectify it. Now if you excuse me." He walked off leaving the room coldly.

Beam was escorted inside the building after a series of questions. No one was allowed inside without proper identification, they were monitoring the whole building carefully to prevent any reporters inside. He made his way to Pha's office only to know that they were in the conference room. He came here as soon as possible after hearing the rumours, there was no way Forth would do something like that, there must be something more going on. However, his heart could resist doing a slight jump when he heard the word 'divorce'.

He was walking hesitately towards the conference room when he saw the door slammed open and Forth came out with a deadly gait. He slid quickly to the side and watched him as he got inside the elevator. Despite his cold exterior, Beam knew that he was hurting inside. He could see past his facade and knew that there was despair and fear behind his lifeless eyes. He was aching to go to him to comfort him, he wanted to hug him and tell him that everything will be alright and that he will here always for him.

For the first time ever he let his emotions show on his face, he let out the wanting, the love and pain he was experiencing. His eyes reflected his most secret feelings he kept buried deep inside from from himself and from the whole world.

At the last second of the door closing, Forth lifted his eyes and collided against his.

Author's note:

Stay tuned my lovelies, it won't be long until the next update.

Regards,