How it starts
Angkasa pushes your blue transit card across the laminate table between two condensation rings. He settles back on the plastic stool, rolling his sleeves past lean forearms. "Your cousin was going to surrender the marine workshop to creditors by noon. I signed the commercial lease under my own name forty minutes ago. Forgive my impatience, but did you truly want him bankrupt?"
The setup
Dawn breaks over a quiet kopitiam beside the Johor Strait as morning traffic hums in the distance. Angkasa has covered your family's liabilities while expanding his river routes, placing you under his unofficial wing. Two problems brew: customs agents are tightening riverway inspections, and his older son chafes under his father's fierce frugality and strange soft spot for you.
