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A Man Already At The Top Chapter 80
When Leon returned to the warehouse, they found a few of the security guards gathered around someone. Elliot got out of the car in panic thinking another person had come to cause trouble. “Hey, what’s going on here? You better get your arse out of here before I call…” The words died in his throat when the security men heard him and moved away in fear only to reveal the person they had been crowding over was a badly battered Klimt Fischer. He was covered all over in blood with a swollen face and split lips. They had tied him to a pole like he tied the security man who challenged him earlier then they beat him with the rods they found lying around. When Elliot realized what was happening, he frowned slightly. Upon seeing this, the security men gulped down nervously thinking they were in trouble. “Who did this?” As soon as the words left his mouth, one of them stepped forward and said, “Me. It was all my idea, sir. If someone will be punished, that should be me.” Elliot parted
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 81
When Leon and Aria got to the penthouse, Dean was sprawled on the sofa in the living room munching down on some snacks. He was doing it so noisily and sloppily that a mouthful of them fell on him and on the chair instead of entering his mouth. When he saw them come in, he raised his eyes and immediately looked disappointed when he didn’t see a scratch on Leon. No, Leon looked even more energetic than when he left earlier this morning. “Hey, did you hide away while your boss did your job for you? Why are you without a scratch when you should be fighting for your life right now?” Leon stared at him blankly like one who didn’t understand a word he was saying while Aria paused and glanced at Dean coldly. “Do you have nothing else to do but to pick on Leon?” Dean sat up immediately and huffed, “What? Are you supporting him doing nothing when he was with Mr. Larol?” “What if it was really Mr. Larol who got hurt instead? Will you take responsibility if he asks the bank to return his m
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 82
Aria exhaled heavily and shook her head, “Thank you, Mr. Keal, but my answer remains the same.” James Keal stared at her for several seconds before he shook his head slightly and walked away without another word. Only then did Chloe release a breath she didn’t know she had been holding. Then she glanced around to see if anyone had seen them. When she saw everyone was busy finding a seat or too nervous to care about anyone else, she scurried to her seat as wel. Soon, the program began. Elliot came to the podium again. “After more than 24 hours of evaluating the proposals of the candidates whose names were on the list yesterday, the company has come to a conclusion on who the finalists are.” “Not only were the proposals read through and vetted by someone other than the Chairman, that person will also be the one announcing who the winners of this year are.”Almost immediately, a ripple went through the crowd as they began murmuring amongst themselves. “Not the Chairman? Don’t tel
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 83
“Rest assured that the President took his time to go through the proposals of every 20 candidates before he came to a decision. Now, let’s hear from him.” As soon as he finished speaking, the Jumbotron screens placed all around the place lit up with a view of an office swivel chair. They could all see the window which belonged to the office situated on the first floor. Five seconds later, Leon majestically walked to sit on the swivel chair. Earlier, he had positioned the camera not to show his face. All the people downstairs could see was his tie and hands as he flipped through the document he was holding. “Is the camera not properly placed? Why can’t we see his face?” “You’re right. I’ve been waiting for his face to come into view all this time. I think the camera wasn’t set up properly.” “Mr. Wyatt, please hurry up and inform the President we can’t see his face.” However, Grant turned to them with a small smile. “The President does not plan to reveal his identity just yet.”
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 84
Leon was watching the scene in the surveillance camera with his brows furrowed tightly into a frown when Grant Wyatt walked in with a phone. “You were right, President. It didn’t even take anything to get him to slip. He must’ve really done this so many times and gotten away won’t it.” Leon took the phone wordlessly from him and played it. Hearing James Keal boast of his family’s fortune and how fine of a mistress another man’s wife would be to him made his eyes cloud over with rage. He paused the video and turned on his camera again. “I hope everyone hasn’t left yet. I just came across this one proposal I overlooked as it was just brought to me by Grant Wyatt.” Everyone stopped talking and stared at the screen closest to them. “It’s the best proposal I’ve seen today. However, since the first position has been taken, I’ll be creating another position. It’ll be rarely used as it would only be for very brilliant proposals.” “That position is First Runner Up. And the first company
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 85
Joseph was taken aback for a moment. He was about to say something, but paused when he realized Grant Wyatt was being serious. Furthermore, every other person behind the stage and in the auditorium had their eyes pinned on him. The last thing he wanted was to insist on signing the contract only to end up embarrassing himself in public. He smacked his lips together and laughed awkwardly to make the situation he was in less embarrassing before passing the contract back to Grant. “Forgive me, Chairman Wyatt. I just thought I’d be a more suitable candidate to sign the contract since I’m a senior executive. My bad.”The staff behind Grant snatched the contract away from him and stretched it towards Aria directly. Grant looked away from Joseph without responding. He then flashed Aria a small smile and continued, “Like i said earlier, you’re free to take it back with you to Wentworth.” “Go through it with your lawyer and if you there’s anything you’re not comfortable with in the contrac
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 86
James Keal went speechless immediately and subconsciously spaced back to that day. Only to shut his eyes and massage his forehead in exasperation. He had done it to so many women he couldn’t remember which one of them was this man’s wife. However, he always had his eyes on them the entire time he spoke to them to make sure they weren’t recording the conversation, so he was very convinced this man was bluffing. Confirming that he had nothing to fear, he pointed a shaky finger at the man and trembled all over in rage like though he was being wrongfully accused. “Watch what you say, will you? I’m a family man and everyone knows this. It doesn’t matter if you apologize after this, a lot of people will never see me the same again!” “So, I swear that if you don’t stop saying this now and it ruins my reputation, expect a lawsuit from me and I won’t stop until your family has nothing left to their name!” No one t to thought much about it, but hearing his threat, the man’s body trembled
A Man Already At The Top Chapter 87
After Grant watched the video, his face grew solemn. Then he handed the phone back to Elliot with the words, “Connect it to the screens so everyone can see what I just watched.” Elliot nodded and walked to the back of the stage. Not knowing what the video was about was killing James. So when Elliot walked away, he hurried over to Grant’s side and laughed nervously. “Chairman Wyatt, you do know my family, right?” Grant kept his eyes on ahead of him as he retorted, “The Keal family of Pinevale, who doesn’t know them?” James grinned broadly. “Exactly. I hear Kings Technology Group is plannong to expand to Pinevale in six months time. Imagine how rest assured you’d be to have a familiar face looking after the branch there.” Grant resisted the urge to sneer realizing where the conversation was going. Instead, he turned to him and said flatly, “If you’re offering to look after the branch there for the company, I’d be grateful to you, Mr. Keal.” James hurriedly waved him aside like i
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“Yeah, it’s Aria.” Ryan’s eyes darkened as he said dispiritedly. “Aria, hurry up here. These gentlemen have better things to do than to stay here.” Joseph urged her, forcing on a wide smile. Aria gripped the hand of her bag tighter and swallowed hard when her eyes met the furious look in Stella’s eyes. Nevertheless, she lowered her eyes to the floor and strutted towards the men. “Miss Aria Miller?” The second man repeated, raising his brows questioningly as she got close to him. She nodded, “Yes, I am.” As soon as the words rolled off her tongue, the one with the invite reached into the pocket of his suit jacket for it. He handed it over to her with a gentle look on his face. “Ms. Miller, you’ve been invited to Carolyn Jensen’s fundraiser which is being held tonight.” “The venue and time is written in the visitation. Ms. Jensen looks forward to seeing you tonight. Have a nice day.” Then they left immediately. As soon as they walked out of the door, Joseph snatc
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Aria hurriedly closed her eyes to shield the water from getting in. Then, she wiped it off with her palm and slowly opened her eyes to gaze blankly at Ryan.The corners of his lips hooked up into a mocking smile as he dropped his hand and snorted, “What is that scary look for? Is this your way of thanking those who do good deed for you?” Some staffs who were lurking behind him chipped in with a huff, “She can’t even thank you for giving her water.” “How ungrateful. If I were Ryan, I wouldn’t give her anything ever again.” “Look how hard she’s glaring at him after what he went through to bring her that water.” When she kept looking at him without saying a word, he scoffed in contempt, “You still won’t thank you? I just saved you from dying from thirst and you repay me by glaring hard at me?” “Honestly, if I knew you’d be like this, I would’ve saved myself the time and energy of bringing you this water.” “No one even remembered you were standing outside except me. Yet, this is how
Change 98
“Mr. Bartlett, this is not somewhere I can be. Keegan Gyst isn’t someone that I can just cross into his territory.” “He may not be around now, but when he returns and finds out I crossed into his territory, he won’t take it lightly with…” Rex Mercer was saying, fear laced into his voice as he walked into the basement with his boys, but instantly fell silent when he saw the sight in front of him. He didn’t know which was more shocking; the sight of Keegan’s men heaped onto each other as they groaned in pain or the sight of Keegan himself lying helplessly under Leon’s foot. The shock in his eyes disappeared after a few seconds and he rushed towards Leon unable to hide his excitement. He stood above Keegan, his eyes wide open in disbelief. “Y-you defeated him! You defeated him!” “Do you know anyone called Carolyn Jensen?” Leon blankly asked without turning to look at him. Rex Mercer’s happiness dwindled a little and his brows knitted into a small frown. He was silent for a moment b
Chapter 97
Keegan Gyst’s brows perked up slightly when he saw Calvin Heinz. But he only stared at him for a second before he threw his face to the side again.Calvin was bulkier and more muscular than Leon, but there were several of Keegan’s men with the exact same built. “It would take more than one backup to save you from dying today.” Leon stood behind Calvin and slipped a hand out of his pocket to look at the time on his wrist. Then he probed Calvin stoically, “Hurry up, I don’t have all day.” Calvin nodded and began advancing towards the thugs. Robert Weathers saw this and cackled loudly. “Don’t let those muscles in your arms fool you into thinking you can get out of this room alive.” “Instead of running towards the cause of your death, shouldnt you be running out of here? Seems you’re all muscles but no brains.” Calvin’s eyes shifted to him. The coldness in them made Robert flinch in fear and subconsciously huddle closer to Keegan. Calvin snatched the axe from the first thug he got
Chapter 96
Robert Weathers sneered and turned on the light switch. The basement illuminated instantly, revealing the dozens of thugs wielding daggers and axes in the room. Leon’s eyes landed on the bulky man sitting in their midst. He had a gruesome knife scar which slanted from his left eyes down to the right side of his lips. Had he whoever gave him the scar slanted his hand a little further and they would’ve damaged his eyes and cut off a side of his lips. “I’ve worked for Mr. Gyst for over 10 years now and I’ve encountered worse scenarios that threatened to end my life, but I never gave up.” “Did you really think a retard like you was capable of making me turn against the man I revere with everything in me?”Leon listened to him with an indifferent look on his face as his eyes roamed the basement. Keegan Gyst stared at Leon intently before he scoffed in disbelief. “So this is the man who beat those bulky men I sent out with you earlier? I expected someone taller and muscular.” “But g
Chapter 95
Leon still didn’t respond. The silence was killing Robert. Every second that went by, the more the back of his shirt got soaked sweat. He peeled his eyes open and swallowed dryly when he saw the blank, unimpressed look on Leon’s face. He couldn’t take it any longer and cried out, “I’ll do anything you want me to. Anything. Just name it!” Leon’s expression finally cracked into a small smile. “Go meet my father-in-law. He’s the one who cares about stuffs like this.” Robert nodded without hesitation before the thugs dragged him to Anthony. Anthony would’ve jumped in fright seeing the thugs and Robert walking towards him had Leon not been with them. As soon as he got to him, Robert pointed at the woman, who was still sprawled on the ground sobbing quietly. “I will return this woman’s child to her and also lead you to Keegan’s next big transaction. I will also tell you whenever he’s about to take another kid. I’ll help you put him out of business.” Anthony stared at him with a susp
Chapter 94
Robert Weathers scoffed seeing Leon maintain his confident stance. He looked away and slipped out his phone from his pocket, opened the camera app and started video recording. “I’ll record you being beaten up so I can watch it when you’re long dead to remind myself someone as stupid as you lived before.” Leon ignores him and slipped his hands into his pockets, sizing up the dozen thugs running towards him with his eyes. They all had their daggers and axes raised high up in the air. Their movements were erratic and uncoordinated. No doubt, these were just average people who were recruited by Keegan Gyst and given weapons. The first thug to get close to Leon charged at with a wild overhead swing of his axe. Leon stepped to the side at that very moment, just in time to save his arm from being hacked off.As the thug stumbled past him, Leon grabbed the his wrist, twisted it, and disarmed him in a single fluid motion. “Arghh!” Before the others could react to their colleague’s pain
Chapter 93
Anthony was speechless and had no idea what to do. This was the first time he was facing something like this. He had been doing this work for the past 25 years and none of the men he rescued children from ever found him. He reasoned since they hadn’t found him for the past 25 years, they would never be able to. So now that it finally happened, he had no plan in mind. He clenched his jaw tightly and glared hard at the restaurant owner, “You can’t do that! Don’t you see the weapons they’re wielding? If you send us out there, there’s no telling what will happen to us!” “To say the least, you and everyone in this restaurant will become an accessory to murder. That’ll be bad for your business, so you should hurry up and call the police!” The restaurant glared back at him and retorted, “You offended Keegan Gyst, he may not be the most dangerous person in Wentworth, but he’s someone you do not want to cross and neither do I.” “Furthermore, he has people in the police. If he finds out I
Chapter 92
Thanks to the tempered glass, Robert Weathers could see the people inside the restaurant. His eyes flickered across the place for a moment before he turned to the van again and dragged out a severely bartered woman. Her eyes and cheeks were swollen and her lips were bled from all sides. The state of her face almost made it impossible for Anthony and Leon to recognize her. After a few seconds, Leon recognized her to be the mother of the boy they had rescued from Robert and taken back to the rescue home. .His eyes dimmed slightly and he pointed it out to Anthony, “Father-in-law, it’s the woman from the rescue home.” When Anthony recognized her, he panicked and shot out of his seat. He was about to stroll towards the door of the restaurant when he saw a dozen thugs holding axes and daggers climb out of the van to stand behind Robert. Robert pulled the woman by the hair and barked something into her face. Unfortunately, they were outside and far from Leon and Anthony. Hence, they
