Life at the Top

By the time he arrived downstairs, Captain Vaughn’s team had already left with Terence and Zayden with them.

Darrel and his parents were still waiting grimly for Jasper.

Jasper walked over and turned to Honey and her husband. “Uncle, Aunty, would you prefer we go back to my place and talk there?”

Jasper’s uncle waved him off despondently. “It’s alright. We just have a few things to say and then we’ll go home.”

Jasper replied seriously, “Please do, then. I’m listening.”

Jasper’s uncle looked at him and said, “In all honesty, we can’t nor do we intend to blame you for what happened today.

“However, it wasn’t a nice feeling to send our own son off to prison either.

“Darrel is all we have left now.”

is still your cousin. He and Terence are different. Darrel’s an honest boy and he’s not the kind who would hurt

it’s not something us parents can help him with. As his cousin and the most outstanding child in the Laine family, I ask that you help

The business plan he’s come up with will begin very soon,

nice. We’ll get going

lawyer I can for him. I’ll do everything I can to reduce his jail time. It’ll also be

if he doesn’t hold any information he knows back from the authorities to help

way, he’ll most likely be able to get out in three to five years and it still won’t be too late

genuine smile finally graced his uncle’s features and he spoke, “That’s for the best. You’re a capable boy, Jasper, and you know a lot of people. Farmers like us don’t even know where to look

up at Darrel. “Send your parents back first. Contact me if you

two looked like they had

of this, right, Jasper?” Julian approached Jasper

than anyone that I’m the last person

enough about this. Let’s go back first. We’ve spent the

massaged his tense shoulders and got