Life at the Top

On the way back to the hotel, Julian turned to look at Jasper. He asked while waiting for the traffic light to turn green, “Should we ask Henry for help on this, Jasper?”

Jasper was stunned. “Why would I do that? He’s busy working on the amusement park project every day. The fact that he’s actually putting his mind to work is rare enough, so I don’t want him to lose focus.”

Julian scratched his head. “I just think it’s best to have a trust-fund child deal with other trust-fund children like Marcus. I’m sure Henry’s got a repertoire of methods to deal with him.”

Jasper smiled. “Why bother? Afraid that I’d lose to him?”

Julian smiled dumbly, “Of course not, Jasper, there’s no way you’d lose. I just don’t like Marcus’ attitude, and I thought that Henry would have a lot of fun stepping over him.”

“Henry won’t be to do anything even if he did come over. After all, Marcus’ family has been doing business in Reed City for decades, their influence here has already surpassed that of any other family.

“This is something that we’ve actually got to deal with ourselves.”

Julian was slightly confused as to what Jasper meant by this, but he did not think too deep much about it. “I don’t understand things like this, but if they’re going to play dirty tricks, I’ll give them a good beating.”

…

about the fact that Jasper had come to invest

Province, and Reed City was thousands of

the fact that someone dared to oppose Marcus had indeed spread like wildfire throughout

territory, and almost no one dared to offend him. People would pay

that someone had dared to stand

caused an uproar among Reed City’s

from the Southeast Province and had come to Reed City to invest in a plot of land so he

between Marcus and

received Chad’s office notice

auction would begin at eight tomorrow morning

was natural that the City Government did not want to make the reality of the situation so blatant, so they also called in two other real estate companies to join the bid, for formality’s

the main competition was