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.”

so far, and on our journey here, we’ve met great allies like the Law family as well as rivals of

have more enemies than friends. After all, the growth of a new family means the

undoubtedly be these enemies of ours. So for your sake and for my own, I

he finished speaking and replied, “I just want you to

no time,

chatted casually and the topic quickly

will become a name that’ll spread across the land.” Despite his age, Dawson could not

involved, were the only ones aware of how

next 20 years and poured the information he knew into the Southface River Project. The goal of it

the foundation for the country’s first private real

profits. We never planned on earning much with the Southface River Project. It’d be great if we can even earn our money’s worth back. The benefits of this project lie in

all shops, office buildings, and most living districts under JW