Life at the Top

On the highway between Suesville and Waterhoof City, Ian told his driver to stop the car just as they arrived at the southern entrance of Suesville. His expression was cloudy.

The man was wondering what Jasper meant by his last words.

“But tell your driver to drive a little slower and steadier on your way back from Suesville, Mr. Hull. It’d be a shame if you died in a car accident.”

‘Was Jasper warning me?’

Ian took a long drag of his cigarette and looked up at the sky above. The highway stretched onward to the horizon, curving from time to time like a large dragon. The unease in his chest grew.

It was like there was a sinister plan waiting to devour him somewhere under the dark night ahead.

“Motherf*cker, this b*stard! If he has no qualms playing dirty and hurting Benny and Hans, then there’s no saying whether he’ll let me go unharmed or not.”

Ian abruptly tossed the cigarette onto the ground and looked up at the driver. “Send me to the airport instead. I’ll fly back to Waterhoof City. You can drive over.”

was stunned. “Mr. Hull, it’ll only take two more hours to drive back. If you choose to fly, with security checks and everything, it’ll take you at least three hours. It’ll be much

do as I say. Am I the boss here or

how stupid his decision looked to others, but he

Gale’s support. The large support would arrive tomorrow, and

act foolishly than

to be crazy and attacked him while he was on the highway, then he would truly be

chided, the driver did not dare to comment further and turned

the same time, Jasper and Vita’s conversation had slowly

just get this

side of Pearl Tower, on the other shore of Harpoon River,

pictures in his past life of the Harpoon River, the current view lacked a symbolic

precisely where the tower would be

to our branch now, and John has already told me of

huh? We can always negotiate.”