Life at the Top

Harvey’s face turned a bright shade of red as he curled his hands into fists and roared like a wounded animal.

“What should we do? How am I supposed to know that?!”

Harvey glared at Mark before he raised a hand to give Mark a resounding slap across the face.

“I asked you to come to apologize. Is this how you apologize?! Huh?!”

As Harvey bellowed, his vision went black and he nearly collapsed onto the ground.

In the end, he gritted his teeth and said, “The Zion family will preserve whatever power it can. As for the rest… we’ll talk about them in the future!”

…

Jasper had gotten himself another room to work in so that he would not interrupt Wendy’s sleep.

When Jasper returned with Julian, he found Wendy curled up lazily on the couch and watching television.

“Done?” Wendy asked.

“Yes.” Jasper nodded and asked gently, “Aren’t you going to bed yet?”

was waiting for you,” Wendy answered in a

was a success. We should be able to

to get rid of the Zion family?” Wendy

The Zion family owned several businesses, but only the shipyard was worth something. He did not have his

Lambert deal with it tomorrow,”

looked at Julian who was standing wordlessly at the door. She called

rarely talked to strangers, let alone beautiful women like

expression was one

liking toward the large, down-to-earth

Jasp’s bodyguard. Your monthly salary will start at 30,000 with a bonus at the end of the year. Your basic salary is 30% of your annual salary. We’ll sponsor two trips per year to any location you like, and you can

continue adding members to Jasp’s

what Wendy had been thinking about

in society was elevating, he needed

knew what would have happened if they had

wanted Julian

more reliable and

said,

would like Julian to stay and work as his bodyguard, but he had not expected Wendy to

Jasper was quite

She would not have made this