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.”

looked sorrowful as he continued, “No matter what, Darrel is still your cousin. He and Terence

As his cousin and the most outstanding child in the Laine family, I ask that you help him wherever you

“I’ll do that even if you hadn’t asked me, Uncle. The business plan he’s come up with will begin very soon, and your family

smiled warmly and nodded. “That’s nice, then. Very nice. We’ll get going now, don’t

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

doesn’t hold any information he knows back from the authorities to help with the investigation. Another reason being that good

able to get out in three to five years and it still won’t be too late

best. You’re a capable boy, Jasper, and you know a lot of

Darrel. “Send your parents back

back. The two

because of this, right, Jasper?” Julian approached Jasper

smiled. “He knows better than anyone that I’m the last person he should have

go back first. We’ve spent

and