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.”

like the Law family as well as

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

first will undoubtedly be these enemies of ours. So for your sake and for

chest after he finished speaking and

no time, dinner was

Dawson chatted casually and the topic quickly returned to the

Southface River will be done in another two months or so. JW Real Estates will become a name that’ll spread across the land.” Despite his age, Dawson could not help

and Jasper, being the people involved, were the only ones aware of how

20 years and poured the information he knew into the Southface River Project. The goal of it was to loudly broadcast JW Real

to build the foundation for the country’s first private

Real Estates is much more important than profits. We never planned on earning much with the Southface River Project. It’d be great

and most living districts under JW Real Estates as they are. They’ll be on a rent-only