Life at the Top

Jasper replied calmly, “Old Master Law is very kind, he’s been watching out for me a lot.”

Gale nodded. “Let us get back to the topic. You should know that Ian Hull is my student and a member of the Haddock Chamber of Commerce.”

Jasper gave a small smile. “This is the first time I’ve heard that he’s your student, but I do know that the both of you hold a close relationship. I knew about his identity as one of the business people from Haddock right at the start as well.”

“Yet you wish to fight to the death?” Gale’s eyebrow twitched as he asked.

Jasper looked at Gale, the older expressionless, and stood his ground. “He crossed my boundaries! He touched what he never should have!”

“The Hull family has to die!”

“If not the Hulls this time, then there would only be other families in the future.”

Gale replied calmly, “Young man, both of you made names for yourselves in youth. But Casey Charles had only come into power when he was in his middle-ages while you came into power the moment you made a name for yourself. There is too much hostility within you.”

that I’m a hostile person, but it does depend on

Jasper intently but did not reply

silently and without a word for Gale to

chilly as it swirled through the small lake pavilion. The sound of running water and fishes swimming drifted over from a distance

Jasper and the entire Haddock

“I am not.”

he continued to speak, “I do not like Ian’s sinister and cruel methods. Much of the way he

two favors. For the first favor, Ian’s father had begged me to take Ian

me to help him. I

I have with Ian has

lightened with Gale’s

be absolutely honest, if possible, Jasper did not want to make an enemy of the powerful Haddock Chamber of Commerce at such a point in

broad range of business and they were all

was very unbeneficial for a rift to appear between Jasper and the spiritual leader of businesspeople from Haddock while he was still