Life at the Top

After Dawson left, Jasper turned to hug Wendy. Smiling, he spoke, “Thank you.”

“For what?” Wendy tilted her head and blinked confusedly.

“Thank you for caring about me,” Jasper spoke as if he could not be any clearer.

“Who else is going to care about you if not me? Just promise you’ll be more careful next time. Those people are willing to do just anything for their own interests,” Wendy reminded.

Jasper nodded. “You’re right. What happened this time was a lesson to myself as well.

“They say good men know better than to stand where danger strikes. And while I wouldn’t call myself a good man, I’m terrified of dying. Reed City is a small place, but I suppose the fact that it’s small means that there’s more negligence with the law there. They’ve had a very smooth sailing history of doing business, so I got careless.”

Wendy spoke gently, “There are no predicting accidents. I don’t ask for much, I don’t even need all these riches. All I want is for you and Dad to be alive and well. That’s enough for me.”

our journey here, we’ve met great allies like the Law family as well as rivals of different calibers like the Monty

enemies than friends. After all, the growth of a new family means the redistribution of interests and benefits.

who’d come at us first will undoubtedly be these enemies of ours. So

head against Jasper’s chest after he finished speaking and replied, “I just want you to

no time, dinner

casually and the topic quickly returned

months or so. JW Real Estates will become a name that’ll spread across the land.” Despite his

the only ones aware of how much effort they had invested

he knew into the

build the foundation for the country’s first private real estate

than profits. We never planned on earning much with the Southface River Project. It’d be great

buildings, and most living districts under JW Real