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JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 386
The woman in the pink shorts came home.Her house was built in 15,000 sqft, and it was worth over five million dollars.Her dad, a strongly built man, was eating snacks outside in the cool evening breeze. “The watermelons are very sweet today. Come and grab some, Caylene.”“Sure, Dad,” she sat down and ate the deseeded watermelons and loved their taste. “Yeah, they are good.”“Tomorrow, there’s a board meeting at the company. I want you to come with me so that you’ll get an idea of how things work.”“I’m not interested, though,” she said.“Just come and watch. That’s all I’m asking,” he said. “I have shares in many companies, but none like the Draknor Finance. All businesses pale in front of finance. Even real estate doesn’t hold a candle to it in the long run. That’s why we must put our focus on this company so that our influence will grow in that company. The more shares we buy, the more secure our future will be.”“Since you are insisting that much, I’ll come,” she said.“Good girl
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 387
On the same night.Jim, Rena, and Shiney slept in the same hotel room but on three different beds. The sisters did not quarrel with each other, not even once. But they weren’t being friendly, either.The next morning.About an hour before the sunrise, Jim woke up and found Shiney sleeping in his bed, right next to him, with one of her legs on top of his leg.He thought it was Rena, so he was a bit shocked to see that it was actually Shiney.He quickly got out of the bed and then walked out onto the balcony.In the past, he would generally hear the traffic. The heavy trucks that would be traveling fast on highways, and the noises of the horns and so on. But right now, he was able to hear very many distinct things.The most peculiar thing he noticed was the chirping on the birds in the trees. And he was able to see that the voices of the birds actually helped the plants wake up from the night before the sunrise.It was so beautiful to see while hearing the voices of the birds that he ha
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 388
After Shiney woke up, Rena didn’t quarrel with her, but she did give her the side-eye for a little bit.Jim just wanted the sisters to be friendly and not attack each other.After all, Jim did not have any male friends growing up. His parents were his only friends. And then, it was Shiney. And then, it was Rena. He owed these four a lot.So, he didn’t want his two still-living friends to be fighting right now. That was the last thing he wanted.Jim never experienced intimidation before, not even when he was fighting the three immortals or the eight masters in the Beast Dungeon, but right now, he felt chills when the sisters were looking at each other and not exchanging a word.He was losing his HP just by being in the same room as these sisters.Life felt like a game, like a simulation he couldn’t escape from.Yes, at this moment,he didn’t want to be in this room.“Girls, let’s go to breakfast,” Jim said.Both of them turned their heads and coldly looked at him.“T-This is…” Jim backe
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 389
The three of them returned to the room after finishing breakfast.“Jim, there’s a carrom board, so why don’t we play carroms?” Shiney asked him.“Sure,” he looked at his wife. “You want to play, too?”“Of course,” Rena replied. She couldn’t just leave those two alone, so she had to agree.They sat down in three chairs, with him sitting between the sisters. He sprayed powder and arranged coins on the board. “These smell like tamarind,” he said. “They must have been made from tamarind wood.”“Do you remember that we used to eat tamarind candy together when we were young?” Shiney said.“How can I forget that?”he quickly said. “The pocket money that my mom gave was spent on buying candy for you.”“Hahaha,” Shiney laughed as if she was proud about it.Unlike Shiney, Rena didn’t have many memories with Jim. They were mostly distant to one another, but she was always attracted to him because of his looks and the fact that he was a very hard worker. The reason Rena respected her mom but not h
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 390
The next morning.Lola woke up at eight in the morning. The house looked very silent and dull. She could not hear the voices of her daughters, or the sounds of Jim working in the kitchen.She went downstairs. As expected, Marc seemed to have ordered food instead of cooking.“Did you bring food from Malcolm’s restaurant again?” Lola asked, a lot of disappointment flowing through her voice.“I’m too old to be cooking right now, Darling,” Marc spoke without a filter because no one else was in the house. “How about we hire a maid?”“There are chefs who stand for hours and cook in hotels even when they are in their seventies, so why are you saying that you’re old?” Lola blurted, trying to control herself from yelling at him. “There’s no need to waste money on a maid. You’ll be doing the housework.”“But I want to manage the restaurant you bought,” Marc expressed his interest plainly.“Why? So you can steal some money and renew your addictions?” Lola asked.“I will be careful from here on.
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 391
Later that night.Shiney came to the room with a bag full of junk food, only to see Rena and Jim sleeping on the same bed, with her laying her head on top of his chest and running her finger in circles around his chin. They were talking about something, but when Shiney entered, Rena quickly got up and went over to her bed.“W-We thought the door was closed,” Jim said.“It’s fine,” Shiney tossed the bag on her bed. “I’m being a nuisance to you both, but bear with me for a little while.”“You’re not a nuisance, Shiney,” Jim said.“Yeah, can my sister say the same?” Shiney asked, to which Rena had no answer. “See. I told you.”Jim took a deep breath. “Why don’t we go out on a trip? All three of us together?”Shiney was shaking her head.Rena also didn’t look okay with his idea. “We don’t have money with us, Jim. We should spend every penny carefully. Just staying at this hotel right now is already costing us a lot. Tomorrow, I have three interviews. Hopefully, I’ll get a job.” She then l
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 392
After Rena insisted that Marc stayed at the hotel for the night, Marc couldn’t refuse. He also didn’t want to leave both of his daughters only after staying with them for a few minutes, so he decided to stay there.Rena told Jim to order some food for her dad and gave him her debit card.Jim went out to withdraw money from the ATM and then buy some food.It turned out that Malcolm’s restaurant was nearby, so Marc told him to bring the food from there, hoping that the restaurant wasn’t closed because it was night time already.Even though Jim didn’t want to visit that place, he wasn’t going to live with Marc and Lola in the future anyway, so he wanted to listen to Marc for this once.In about ten minutes, he reached Malcolm’s restaurant.The last time he came here was more than a month earlier as he was looking for a job. He was even willing to work as an assistant chef, but Malcolm told him that only a janitor’s job was available. He even humiliated Jim by telling him that he might ha
JIM IS HIM CHAPTER 393
Four men rushed into the restaurant, pushed Jim to the side, and forcibly dragged Malcolm out.“What do you want?” Malcolm asked them, but they didn’t answer him.They brought him to the car, and the rooftop opened. Jerkins stood and revealed himself, smoking from a pipe, and wearing an old fashioned hat. He had dog-tag earrings.“M-Mr. Jerkins! What do you want me for?” Malcolm asked.“You see… your brother has lost it and stole a bag full of drugs from my basement and ran away,” Jerkins said. “Now that’s a special drug. One gram costs over 100 dollars. And he stole 12.6 kilos of it. That adds up to 1.26 million dollars. I’m going to have you pay me that money.”“T-This is ridiculous,” Malcolm raised his voice, and he was punched in the gut by Jerkins’ underlings. Malcolm coughed blood. “I can’t give you that much money. I already lost my restaurant.”“I know, but you still have your precious house, don’t you?” Jerkins said. “It has a value of about 800,000 dollars. I’ll take that f
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THANK YOU:: JIM IS HIM… is finished! Have you enjoyed it? I hope so. I definitely enjoyed writing it as it was challenging. It was supposed to be a 500 chapter long work, but I condensed it and finished it quickly. To all those who read every chapter and reached this page… you have my humble thanks. A big thanks to readers Lynn Casey, Mickey Ritch, and Liwhundebe Emmanuel for their precious votes. A special thanks to Rex Magnus for his lovely review. Much appreciated, Brother. CHARACTERS:: I hope you can take away some memorable characters from this novel. My favorite character is Jim, not because he’s the protagonist, but because he will give me food if I go to his restaurant with empty pockets more than once. He didn't have many friends growing up, but if you ask Shiney, she’ll tell you that he’s the kind you wouldn’t want to end your relationship with once you get to know him. Then again, Shiney might give you a different answer depending on the mood she’s in when you ask her.
EPILOGUE
Sometime later.Jim and Rena were on a mountain top, enjoying the view of the magnificent forest. Her belly was slightly swollen.A couple of birds flew by.“How do they find food?” Rena curiously asked.“God provides for them,” Jim said.“Yeah, but he doesn’t drop food in their nests, would he?” Rena retorted.“We work like buffaloes, and then buy food, cook it, and then put it in our mouths, chew it, and then our stomach has to digest it,” Jim said. “Just like us, birds also fly about to find grains, bugs, spiders, and… they can see from afar unlike us. They can see a tiny spider that’s dancing on its web under a tree shade from hundreds of meters away. So, yeah, God equipped them with enough skills so they can feed themselves even though they don’t live under a roof like us.”Just then, a brown Bentley arrived at the scene.John stepped out first and then opened the door for her. She got up and said, “Why don’t you also carry me over there because I can’t walk, you know.”“I was ju
CHAPTER 405
Seeing Rena enter the kitchen, Jim also rushed in. He took the coupons from her and then kissed her hand.This was part of the deal, after all.The thing that she requested of him for being a waitress was that he would kiss a part of her body once every time she would enter the kitchen. And she was loving it now as Jim was coming up to her no matter where he was or whatever he was doing and was kissing her in unexpected ways and in unexpected places at times. Luckily, the kitchen was not open for view, or it would have been impossible to have these cuddling and kissing endeavors.As they were hugging, Rena noticed a little creature sneakily enter the kitchen. “I-I-It’s a rat!”“WHAT?” Jim was shocked and angered. How dare a rat enter his restaurant on the day he opened it? And that, too, in the middle of the day? “Where is it?”“I don’t know. It disappeared,” Rena looked around but couldn’t find it.“These things are smart. The moment they think they’re in danger, they freeze,” Jim co
CHAPTER 404
Two weeks passed since Jim revealed his ancestry to those of the Draknor Finance company.At Bob Shriner’s house.Bob had kidnapped a six-year-old girl and tied her to a chair. Wearing a clown mask, he was dancing around her chair to make her cry and feel the horror of it.After all, sacrificing after torturing the prey would bring best results for any dark path ritual, so Bob was very excited about it.After finishing his dance, he revealed his hidden knife and stabbed the girl’s head from the top. The knife went right through her skull and came down from the chin. He was grinning; however, a second later, he realized that not a single drop of blood spilled, and the little girl was grinning at him as if she was the predator and he was the prey.Bob quickly stumbled back. “W-Who the hell are you?”“She’s Systa,” a voice came from behind Bob, sending a chill down his spine because he couldn’t even sense the presence of this person. He turned back but didn’t recognize this man who was n
CHAPTER 403
A few days after Jim revealed himself to the chairman of Draknor Finance.In Draknor Finance headquarters.Lola was working alone in the cafe as Jim had told her to not hire any workers and that she must run the cafe by herself for the next four years.She was making sandwiches in the cafe, and she ended up cutting a bit of her finger while cutting tomatoes. And it made her cry from pain and then cry some more because of the hardships she was facing. As if that wasn’t enough, when she took the sandwich to the customer, he complained to her saying, “I asked you to mildly heat them in order to keep them soft. Why did you roast them this much?”“Sorry, sir. I’ll do well next time.”“Next time? You mean you want me to eat this shit right now?” The customer was none other than Joker from the Beast Dungeon.“T-That’s not shit, sir. It’s only roasted a little more than you asked for.”“So, now, you’re teaching me, a new client of this company, about food,” he hissed at her and threw the sand
CHAPTER 402
“If you want to keep working in this company, then you need to do two things,” Jim said, and Lola already found herself losing her posture. “First thing. Give me my restaurant back.”“Done,” Lola didn’t even hesitate to agree. “What’s the second one?”Jim smiled and said, “There are multiple cafes in this building. I want you to open a new cafe and work as the main cook there. You’ll be taking care of that shop for the next four years. And then I’ll take reviews from the employees. If you get a majority of good votes, then I’ll promote you to a financier level. Otherwise…”Lola was shaking in rage. “You want me to cook and sell food like you and your dad did? Go to hell! I’m never doing that!” she shouted and walked away in haste.Marc followed her, but he pleasantly smiled at Jim.Jim, however, didn’t even bat an eyelid.After Marc and Lola left the building, with the latter looking extremely humiliated, Jim turned to face Rena, “Was I too harsh?”Rena slightly shook her head. “She h
CHAPTER 401
Jim put his hand forward, and Steve gently held it and kissed it.Lola’s heart, brain, lungs, and many other organs seemed to be suddenly failing to work at this very instance. The mobile and handbag in Caylene’s hand dropped. Her dad tilted his head back in stupendous shock.Marc looked utterly dumbfounded.Tom and his dad and sister seemed supremely flummoxed.Austin, on the other hand, looked horrified. Elisha’s face also froze in a bit of horror.Rena was the only one who was able to move. “W-What is this, Jim?” She stepped forward. She knew who Steve was, so she looked at Steve. “Why are you bowing to my husband? What is this? Why did you call him Lord Jim?”“He’s from the line of kings, so how else would you want me to call him?” Steve replied, still kneeling even though it was hurting him to do that at his age.“F-From the line of Kings? Who? Jim?” Rena looked very confused.“I cannot speak more about the Lord while in his presence,” Steve added. “So, please forgive me for not
CHAPTER 400
On the ground floor, more than a dozen guards were lying on the floor. Some were still conscious but were in too much pain to get back.There were many people standing, but most of them were not even willing to step forward or get themselves involved in whatever was happening.Jim was still holding the broken arm of Austin who was crying blood at this point. Jim had defeated the guards while holding Austin’s arm. And this brought greater pain to Austin. The only reason he didn’t pass out from pain was because Jim bolstered his mind with psychic vivre so that he’d be able to endure it to an extent. Austin was not aware of this. Even though he was able to bear the pain, the pain was still there. He had to withstand the indescribable pain that throbbed all across his arm, especially near his elbow and shoulder.“Y-You monster…” Caylene couldn’t believe what had happened. She was not expecting Jim to defeat the guards so easily. “Just take some money and get lost from here.”“You can’t so
CHAPTER 399
Steve Millman was talking with someone on his mobile.“He is likely going to come to your office today,” Bernard was speaking from the other side.“Lord is?” Steve was startled. “Today?”“Treat him well. I’ll be sending you his photo, so don’t mess up, or you’re the only one who’s going to suffer, Steve,” Bernard said and ended the call.As Bernard waited, every second felt long.More than fifteen long seconds later, he received a notification. He saw the photo. “So, this is Jim Draknor. He looks to be barely thirty. No, he could be younger.” He gritted his teeth. “I have to bow to this brat?” His ego felt very hurt right now.He called someone on his mobile and said, “I sent you a picture. Find out his identity immediately.”“Yes, sir. Just give me a minute.”Steve stayed on the call, and then the person from the other side said, “Sir Steve, I found information on him. He used to be an ordinary chef, but only a day ago, his name has been spreading through the underground circles all
