""How are you planning to pay back my money?" He asked, with wide and serious eyes. "I… uhm… I will pay you back. I promise." "Promise? What is there to promise? There is no way I can help you. Now go back to your family, and rot with them. Ask whoever made you this way to return you to your original state. Get out of my office and leave this company," he ordered. Immediately he heard those words, Mr. Jefferson looked at Alaric with pitiful eyes, alarming himself to the fact that Alaric was going to send him out of the company and not fulfill his request. He jammed his hands together and begged Alaric like he was begging for his life. "Please, Young Master, don't do this to me. Don't decline my request, I beg of you. Please. Don't do this. I have no other place to go, and I don't want to suffer a miserable fate, sir. I beg of you. Please help my life. Please don't do this to me, I beg of you. Help my life, so that I don't die of poverty," he begged. Alaric was becoming angrie

"Norton, Arnold, your wife, and everyone. You all will end up in the streets. Mark my words, Jeff. I have said it. Watch out for danger any time soon. I promise it will come and get you. Now get your ass and run out of this company building like you are being hunted down," Alaric commanded. Mr. Jefferson raised his head. "Me? Just like that? Thank you!" He said. He repeated the words constantly, and he ran out of the office, breathing hard and fast like a freed slave. Steve was surprised and stared at Alaric in shock. He couldn't believe that Alaric just let Mr. Jefferson go that easily. Alaric heaved a sigh and turned around to notice the look on Steve's face. It was a mix of disappointment and confusion, and he was really thinking about which one it was. "What's with that face, Steve?" He asked Steve. Steve was reluctant to talk but cleared his throat. "Y… Young Master, I am just surprised at what you just did. You…" "Let Mr. Jefferson go?" He asked, completing Steve's ques

"Great. After everything, we will celebrate because they will fall on their knees and beg us to forgive them, but we won't. Don't forget to always have me on the aya, and keep in touch with me. I want to know every move Mr. Jefferson makes," Alaric ordered, and Steve nodded. He turned around and wanted to leave the room when he noticed the sudden silence of Steve again. Steve wasn't doing anything and was just standing, and Alaric turned around to look at him. "What the hell is the problem Steve? Why are you like that? Why are you not following me? Don't tell me you still have something going on in your head," he said, as he walked back up to Steve, with raised eyebrows. Steve looked sideways, to avoid Alaric's eyes and his knowing look. No matter what, Alaric had not convinced him and had not told him the truth. That, he believed. It would have been better if he told him and not kept him in the dark, trying to guess what fueled the rivalry between him and Mr. Jefferson that h

"I'm impressed. Never say never, though. Anyways, you shouldn't mention this to Evelyn, or anybody else. Not my father, any other worker, anybody at the office, my sister, or even my mother. Nobody else. Keep it sealed," he said, with intensity in his eyes."Yes, young Master. I will," Steve said, nodding, and Alaric shook hands with him, embracing him after. "Let's go outside. Don't worry, we have Mr Jefferson where we want him. There is no way to escape now," Alaric assured Steve, and he nodded. They both left the office, and Alaric almost bumped into Evelyn as he came out. Turns out she was standing in front of the office, waiting at the door for the meeting to be over. He turned and looked at Steve. There was no way she was eavesdropping, right? He thought to himself."Uh… I'm sorry, young Master," she said, moving three steps backward."What? Ummm… you were standing here the whole time? When did you come here?" He asked her. She shook her head. "No, young Master. I only came

"What are you trying to tell us, Dad? I don't understand anything. What is the Wright empire, and how do you know about them, Norton?" Arnold asked, squinting, obviously confused with what was going on between his father and his younger brother, Norton. "The Wright empire is one of the greatest conglomerates in the world, Arnold. If you are really fond of reading newspapers and getting updated, you will know about them. They hold so many things in their possessions, ranging from malls, all the way to other popular brands, dealing with so many things, and they are very powerful and influential. I don't understand what Father has against them, though," Norton replied. "Honey, why are you not saying anything? You have heard what Norton said. Say something about this. I am equally as confused as them, and I don't understand anything. What do you have against the powerful Wright Empire? Please tell us what you mean," Mrs. Jefferson begged her husband. She was getting fed up with Mr. Je