Life at the Top

There were signs of tears in Sylva’s eyes. “He told me last night that they might as well just kill him if they wanted to force him to do anything. The only reason he would kill himself is if they threatened him with me.

“Conrad is a ruthless man, and I would not put it below him to threaten Zayden with my life. That’s probably why Zayden made such a decision.

“When he told me that last night, he had said something else too. He told me that you would be confused, and if he guessed it right, then it meant he had won.”

Although he was dazed, Jasper sighed softly and got up to say again, “My condolences.”

Sylva waved his hand dismissively and murmured, “I’ll be going now. Whatever that happens after this, well that will have nothing to do with me at all.”

After speaking, the elderly man slowly walked away. Jasper felt a surge of indescribable fury bubble within him as he watched the other man leave despondently.

‘Conrad, Kennedy, and Sirius are getting out of hand.

‘There’s no saying what these three would do for the sake of their own profits.

‘Sure, Zayden was bad, but he had already gotten his punishment. Yet they still hired killers to deal with him.

‘Was this necessary?

‘Not at all.

did not affect the

did it

‘Was this a demonstration?’

suddenly saw the image of Conrad scoffing at him in his mind. He was in his tunic and wearing

would

make a move, Jasper and Dawson had to make preparations to counter them as

meeting the man, Jasper told Dawson everything that was about to

entire province. Do they think that they can just attack us like this without getting bitten back

I’ll have to trouble you with this,

Dawson nodded

right that I return the favor.” Jasper chuckled, playing around with the trinkets on Dawson’s office

had two things to

was to

enraged than he was and immediately bought Henry a ticket for the next flight over to the Southeast Province to help Jasper. Zachary