Late in the afternoon, at three, Javier and Chad arrived at Sammy-Blue Inc’s headquarters in the state capital.Chad had not stopped shaking his head since entering their office building. “What in the name of all things holy is this? It’s godd*mn chaos in here! Does the saying ‘too many cooks spoil the food’ mean anything to them while they organize their financial department? This entire building is made up of floors filled with ‘finance’ people! Why does an organization even need these many financial departments anyway? I swear to god, nobody here knows what they’re doing!”A leader as illustrious as Chad could, of course, easily spot the problems in the company’s management and organization. What was a mystery to him, though, was why Sammy-Blue needed such a preposterous number of people working on their finances.Javier sniggered to himself wordlessly. His suspicion that Sammy-Blue Inc. was a money-laundering scheme just kept growing stronger.A beautiful secretary led them to
Edna skidded toward the office like a fired bullet, her speed causing one of her heels to be kicked away in the dust. Unfortunately for her, even her arrival did not stop Javier from entering. In fact, he took this chance to spite her! That b*stard tossed her an irreverent wink, as though he was a…a flirt!Edna was infuriated. What kind of savage had she just met?! What a pr*ck!The chairman was going to fire her for sure, right?Javier’s attention moved on from her and into the chairman’s office. There was another man inside the room—a foreigner with a rather severe mien whose left cheek was marred by a long scar. Terror seemed to ooze out of it like miasma.In stark comparison, Samuel Lambert looked like a soft-spoken gentleman. With a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, he actually looked like a news anchorman more than anything else.The moment Javier kicked the door open, the foreigner shut his customized laptop. Samuel also got to his feet and leveled a frigid glare at
Javier’s phone rang just as he left Mary Jane’s office.“Old MacDonald had a farm…”The familiar ringtone had not rung for years, but now that it played so suddenly, it felt familiar and tender. Despite that, the old fox’s tone contained no fondness when Javier answered the call.“You brat, well done! Do you think your family money comes from a windfall? You spent 10 billion dollars just like that. You don’t feel a pinch because it’s not your money you’re spending, is it?”Javier was speechless. He knew that the old fox would not call him for no reason, so he retorted, “It’s just 10 billion dollars, isn’t it? You don’t even know how much you’ve made, yet you care about this 10 billion dollars? Did you only understand the real meaning of being a miser at this age?”The old man went quiet upon hearing his retort, taking a few seconds before he replied, “Indulge me. What kind of grand plan are you plotting now?”Javier explained halfheartedly, “Someone mocked me for being poor and I
It had been more than an hour since the iridescent passion drew to a close after reaching its exhilarating peak.Cleaning up in a haste, Jade quickly pulled her clothes back on. She recalled the moment when the two of them had signed the agreement in the office several months ago.Back then, she had even thought that Javier was a lecherous thug, that she would not let such a man have the chance to get close to her this whole time. She had added an additional clause in the contract to mock him too.Who could have thought that the two of them would be so deeply in love with each other today that they had even done something like this in the office in broad daylight? It was embarrassing.Unable to help herself, Jade turned to gaze at Javier with love brimming in her eyes.“Darling, you’re amazing. I really wish I could stay with you and never have to part like just now for the rest of our lives.”Like just now? Like how? While the two of them had been doing that?Going back to the
After asking someone to keep an eye on Samuel, Javier saved the evidence he currently had. He wanted it all in detail, though. Since terrorism was involved, he might as well go all the way and find out everything.He uploaded a new task on the black market to find evidence of all the people and acquaintances who had worked and partnered up with Samuel, including proof of Samuel’s own crimes, as well as clues and evidence about the terrorist organization related to him. After all, terrorism was a global enemy right now.Prior to this, his fight against Samuel had been on a personal level, but it had quickly escalated to national security now.The Kerseys stayed abroad, but the first line of the vow that each family head had to recite before taking over the position was “The Kerseys are forever and always Chineans”.Now that terrorists were involved, Samuel was the enemy of the nation. There was no way Javier would allow him to keep existing.After saving all the evidence he had for
After hanging up, Chad, who had been rather delighted, felt embarrassed. He was, after all, in Mary Jane’s office with Javier next to him.Speaking of him, it was Javier who had urged him to say what he had. Otherwise, there was no way Chad would have said something that shameless right in front of another woman, let alone Mary Jane.Pocketing his phone, Chad shook his head weakly without saying anything. He suspected that there was an 80% chance this was a bust. He had thought that the girl was quite pretty and had spent the last two days thinking about her, but all hope was lost now that Javier had forced him to say that. He had no chance now.Javier begged to differ. “McCool, my man, don’t worry. The girl will say yes. Sammy-Blue Inc’s only been down for two days, and she’s already impatient to jump ship. This girl’s very ‘adaptable’.“Instead of skirting around the issue with her, you might as well be upfront and give her a price lest you get into more trouble in the future,” J
When Samuel arrived, Javier did not pay attention to him. Instead, he made his subordinate frustrate the guy first. Samuel was furious. He had expected to suffer in indignation and annoyance during this visit today, but he had not imagined that he would experience that in the hands of an unknown small fry of an employee before he could meet Javier. He was positively fuming.If this had happened two days ago, he could have made the employee get on their knees with sheer money. He could not do that now. His pockets were empty. Even the pack of cigarettes he had on him had been bought at the gas station using the prepaid card he had previously loaded there. Thankfully, the gas station had accepted his card. Otherwise, it would have been hard for him to even come here.After the trouble he went through with the employee, Samuel finally got to sit down in the reception room. Feeling his throat burn with rage, he gestured at Edna, his secretary. “Edna, get me a glass of water.”There was
Samuel did not have the luxury of time. He could not wait for Javier to be done with his Rubik’s cube, so he got straight to the point and said, “Mr. Kersey, I’m sorry for what I did previously. It’s my fault for failing to recognize who you are. I hope you will be able to find in your heart the kindness to spare me.”Javier paid Samuel no attention and carried on tutting as he looked at the information he had received via email. “Mr. Javier, I was wrong to say that you would never get the chance to see me begging you in your life. I now discarded all my dignity to come here and beg for your forgiveness, so I hope you will be able to do so on account of my sincerity.”Javier still paid Samuel no attention. It was obvious that he did not care how sincere Samuel was being. Forcing down the anger he felt inside, Samuel kept on begging for Javier’s forgiveness multiple times, seeming very sincere about it as well. However, Javier still did not seem to be moved. Finally, Samuel coul