Life at the Top

“You’re going too far, Jasper!”

Dave stared at Jasper and roared.

“What’s wrong with a creditor coming to collect my debtor’s debts? How am I going too far? Or are you telling me that I’m just supposed to give you that 2.7 billion? Is that it?” Jasper asked curiously.

“You won’t get anything good out of crushing the entire Hanks family to bits! Doing so will only make the situation more difficult to deal with,” Dave spoke grimly.

Smiling, Jasper replied to Dave calmly, “Then how would you propose I do this?”

“We’ll pay you 20 million a year until we repay everything. That’s the most we can do.” Dave’s eyes shifted as he spoke.

Jasper chuckled at the suggestion and turned to look at Sirius, ignoring Dave. “Mr. Hanks, should I take this as your family’s final decision?”

Dave roared. “I’m talking to you here! What’s with your attitude?”

suddenly spoke, interrupting

Hanks family is now a mere shell of its former glory. We have no other

I don’t believe that’s the result you wish to

to ask Sirius, “Did you have anything to

slightly at how Jasper asked him a tricky question instead of

in the detention center in the first place. He killed himself because he couldn’t take the reality of it. If anything, you were the one who

him. After all, this is

you didn’t answer my question at all. So tell me, what role did you play in

did not need to turn back to know that his family was looking at him with shocked, complicated, and confused

suffering the most. I swear, I’ll

because he couldn’t handle the fact that I put him behind bars? Now you’re telling me that you’re going to

“What the hell do you

enemies, not friends. I’d be the last person to help avenge him. In fact, I should be here clapping my hands in joy about the fact that he’s dead. But this incident has

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