Life at the Top

On the other end of the video call, Anna’s background showed that the sun was shining where she was. She was sitting in an office, her delicate fingers fiddling with a pencil as she rebuked him.

Jasper said somewhat embarrassedly, “I’ve been really busy. A lot has happened.”

“My dad told me all about it. Everything’s been taken care of now, right?” Anna asked as she smiled slightly.

As he nodded, Jasper was still thinking about how he should bring up the topic when he heard Anna say, “So tell me, how can I help you?”

“How did you know?” Jasper asked in surprise.

Anna’s flirtatious behavior was evident even though she was thousands of miles away. She stared at Jasper with her beautiful eyes and said, “I know you better than you think I do.”

Seeing how his goal had been exposed, Jasper gave up trying to be secretive and said, “I remember you once told me you had a friend who’s part of the Sentel family?”

Anna nodded and said, “That’s right. She’s the third granddaughter of Sentel Corporation’s current president, Kit Lang. We’re on pretty good terms.”

“I was hoping you

said in surprise, “You want to

wrong?” Jasper asked

last week and won’t be

me what’s

hide anything from her and told her his objective, “I’m planning

part of the Law family and was well-informed in what went

but I remember the person who invented it is Damond Golding, the current president of Sunrea Company. Although he used to work

was already using the company’s resources to design the first MP3 player. He had even built a

at Sunrea after Sentel

of the patent because Damond used the company’s resources to complete his invention while he

Damond was given priority to its benefits, which is why Sentel is not earning from the sales of MP3 players even though they’re slowly

of the patent that Sentel holds?” Anna immediately understood what Jasper was thinking

this affair will include several legal disputes, which is why I’m leaning more toward purchasing the patent from