Life at the Top

“But 59% is still in your hands, no?” Jasper replied, having already expected such a reaction from Wayne.

Wayne and Jose exchanged a look as the latter replied, “Mr. Laine, I’m afraid forcefully suppressing Softwin with our shares will only result in an unrepairable discord between both parties. The slightest mistake and Abbylon will be over.”

Jasper got up and walked over to stand behind Wayne and Jose. He placed his hands on each of their shoulders and leaned down such that his head was between the two men.

“As long as we have the eighteen founders, as long as we have you two, Mr. Marlon and Mr. Salazar, then who cares if Abbylon falls? There can always be another company–another Abbylon. It’s a simple concept and I’m sure the both of you understand this.”

Wayne stared deeply at Jasper and asked solemnly, “What do you want, Mr. Laine?”

“Me?” Jasper chuckled and straightened himself to reply, “Hudson Moore from Terizone asked me a similar question back then. I told him that I wanted to turn Terizone into a mega-enterprise worth trillions on the market.”

“But now.” Jasper looked at Wayne. The man’s eyes shone with certainty and exceptional confidence.

“I can tell you that I plan to make Abbylon into the greatest and most respected enterprise out there. Its market value isn’t important because it’s going to be responsible for society in its entirety. It’ll soon change how society lives!”

feet when he

thumped erratically in his chest. Gushes of warm blood rushed to his brain as sweat began to bead on

that he had never founded Abbylon for the money. He just

so happened to be an unavoidable path toward

no one would believe him if he told this. In fact, doing so would only result in them mocking

on this day, he had finally

feeling of finding his soulmate who

“Mr. Marlon. Be it Softwin or any other capitalist investor, they’ll only invest in Abbylon because they see your potential to make great profits in

I’m different from them. What I see is a whole new world, one that we

out of sheer excitement. At that crucial moment, Jose’s words poured over him like a

already invested more than 25 million US Dollars in Abbylon. Moreover, Myles has told us that he’s willing to

matter how exciting this future you speak of is. You’re still going to