
I saw who called me out loud. Oliver put on a watchful face.
"John Shum! You just surprised me. Bro, how are you." God, I thought Kent was just an old friend I didn't see.
His big smile made me smile. One of the gang's first friends. This time I'm not afraid this one is complaining to Kent because Shum decided to leave the gang and run his parents' little restaurant shortly before Derrick left for Hong Kong.
"Brother I miss you. Why do you look so fat now?" He nodded and hugged me.
"You miss me but you never tell me. You're a little brother who doesn't know himself..." I'm the only female member of the gang. The brothers there never treated me badly. I was a sister to them the only sister of the tomboy brawler they cared about. I hugged her. But I saw the woman behind him, I immediately took off my embrace.
"Brother, sorry. She's your wife, cece I'm sorry I hugged Brother Shum." I bowed apologizing and greeted the woman behind him.
"Ah it's okay, you seem to be his gangmate first right, I think I've seen you. How long have you not met." His wife turned out to be quite friendly.
"Ahhh maybe eight years or nine. It's been a long time,..." This time Brother Shum answered.
"Brother look at you. How advanced your stomach is, it seems Cece cooks you a lot of good food." Everyone is laughing now.
"Ahh sorry if I bother you guys,." she saw Oliver. Oliver is standing now. I almost forgot to introduce him. "Sandra's sister is this your lover?" Brother Shum now asked me.
"I'm Oliver Russell's girlfriend. Nice to meet you Brother Shum." She admitted to being my lover all of a sudden, for a moment I was glued to her. And he doesn't mind talking even if it's a bit flattened with the Cantonese.
"Ahh apparently Sandra's lover. You're so lucky, apparently, to disappear from Hong Kong and find this handsome guy. Hello sir, I'm an old friend of Sandra's, just call me John Shum. You can talk Cantonese?"
"Yes, it's not very eloquent, but I understand that if you hear me, let's sit down, join us. Sandra would love to chat, we haven't even finished the main course." Even kindly offered to sit with them.
Brother Sum and his wife finally accepted Oliver's offer. I was so happy to talk to him again.
"Where do you work now. The others were looking but didn't find you, actually why did you suddenly leave Hong Kong, everyone was looking for you back then. Kent seems to be looking for you, too, but everybody doesn't know where you are, when you were the manager of one of the clubs in Kowloon, no, why did you leave your position all of a sudden, someone saw you go, he said, but didn't know where you were going?"
In the past Kent deliberately separated 3 other friends who did not work near me. While threatening me if I spread the word about our relationship, she would hurt the person I was asking for help. Although I have friends in Hong Kong, I dare not put their lives in danger.
I told Brother Shum everything. He and his wife heard my story while gritting their teeth.
"Ban*gsat Kent was a real asshole. So all this time it's been the reason you disappeared, why you were so afraid of her, there's gotta be a way to help you early if you tell us Sandra. We're all brothers, we'll find a way if you tell us ..."
"Big brother, if you see that, how could I harm you." I can't let those who are still in Kent be victims.
"I heard Kent is an important person in Hong Kong, he's got a lot of power under Hong Lung?" It was Oliver's turn to ask.
"So your boyfriend knows it too."
"Today I accidentally met him in Jakarta, he's still trying..." I did not continue my words.
"The son of a bitch is still an asshole, it's only fitting that he hasn't married until now. Who wants to marry a psycho like that. The problem seems to be true, he controlled the territory of Hong Kong. No one dares to fight him in Hong Lung Center for now." Brother Shum continued.
"Unless Derrick goes down, even then it may be quite difficult, personal matters will not affect the Big Boss' decision, having to gather evidence to bring him down, he said, if there was dissatisfaction from his subordinates in general it could only be taken into account by the Big Boss. He once saved Philip's current wife, whom Philip owed him, and in addition had been with Philip for a long time even from when Philip was young, bringing him down would not have been easy. But to keep him from bothering you anymore should be possible if Ko Derrick intervenes to threaten him, I don't think even if he's going to look for trouble with Derrick who's been in Hong Lung's eight heads of global business."
I was pensive with Brother Sum's words, it's true that his past treatment of me will not succeed in making Kent fall from his current position of strength.
"The next time he tries me alone, he'll beat him up." Oliver seems to be upset about this fact as well.
"If I get beat up doesn't mean I lose Brother Shum."
"What do you mean?" I'm afraid now what's on his mind.
"Here it is, let's just talk about Kent. Brother Shum where your restaurant is, let us visit later." He refused to talk about Kent again and sought another conversation. We finished lunch with a nice talk later and forgot about Kent.
"You lived here a long time?"
"I'm just accompanying Oliver here, I'll be back in Jakarta again."
"If he dares to bother you again, you should talk to Derrick, you're under him directly now, don't delay again. Kent hasn't had so much courage against Derrick that I now think..."
"Well, I'll follow Brother's advice." We split up later and exchanged phone numbers.
"Why do you acknowledge me as your lover. You shouldn't have to do that." We were already sitting in the car when I questioned him seriously.
"I was thinking he might be Kent's spy, if Kent knew you had a girlfriend maybe he'd think 2x to touch my girlfriend, he'd investigate who I was before he acted. Does that bother you?" Turns out that means.
Disturbing, that's an inappropriate word it seems. How I'm annoyed with people who want to help me.
"I'm just afraid you're wretched Oliver. No, not that I feel bothered, I just don't want you to be burdened. It wasn't me protecting you that you seemed to be protecting me right now. You are a good friend... Thanks again Oliver."
"That's sweet, you're worried about your friend. Thank ye. So don't worry anymore, as long as there's me you'll be safe." I smiled at him.
We're only together 30 days for the record, I'm safe for 30 days. If I come back later I'll tell Ko Derrick. Ko Derrick would threaten him for me. True, Brother Shum said, he would not dare to overstep Derrick's authority in a different region.
"Alright thank you again Oliver, you're a good friend. Thank you again. But don't take any chances for me okay. Later after returning to Jakarta, I will follow Brother Sum's advice to report to Ko Derrick, he can definitely find a way for me.
He was silent after hearing my words, I don't know what's on his mind right now.
"Oliver, why are you quiet?" He took a deep breath and looked at me.
"No, I just feel defeated before the fight."
"you mean? Defeated who?" Oliver laughed at my question. "Don't try to fight Kent Oliver, you just fight me, don't try to fight Kent, he dares to send me a woman to the hospital, you think he'll be disinclined, promise me you won't try to come to her. That's dangerous." He came back and didn't answer me just staring straight into the street.
"Oliver? You heard me. Don't try to challenge Kent. Let Ko Derrick take care of it. You don't endanger yourself." I'm shaking his shoulder now. But he didn't answer me.
"We just go watch how...."
"You haven't promised." I'm afraid he's trying stupid things.
"I'm not gonna die, get hurt the most and get into an emergency last night. Are you gonna cry for me if I'm in the emergency." He even asked me to joke.
"Oliver, don't be stupid! Why do you have to do such a senseless thing." I don't understand what he's thinking now.
"You're right, I'm stupid."
Gosh these guys, do they always think violence is a good thing to solve a problem?!