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.”

that, Jasper’s uncle looked sorrowful as he continued, “No matter what, Darrel is still your cousin. He and Terence are different. Darrel’s an honest boy and

parents can help him with. As his cousin and the most outstanding child in the Laine

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

nice, then. Very nice. We’ll get going now, don’t let us delay you

that I’ll find the best lawyer I can for him. I’ll do everything I can to reduce his jail time. It’ll

be frank, considering how it’s best if he doesn’t hold any information he knows back from the authorities

likely be able to get out in three to five years and it

best. You’re a capable boy, Jasper, and you know a lot of people. Farmers like us don’t even know where to look for a lawyer. I’ll have to trouble

Darrel. “Send your parents back

helped his parents back. The two looked like they had suddenly aged

of this, right, Jasper?”

smiled. “He knows better than anyone that I’m the

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

shoulders and got into the