On the Edge
Author: Mac Nicholas 🖊️
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

The bodyguards were forced to stop almost immediately as they heard the resounded roar of the man in rumpled cloths but with a thundering voice.

“Who the hell are you to tell my bodyguards what to do?” Mr Fin questioned Jason with so much contempt in his eyes.

“If you are to find out who I am, I bet you would have a proper rethink. Is this how you manage this place? Giving preferential treatment to only the rich while you neglect the poor.”

Jason was furious and ready to act, gently he walked over to the counter and dropped the bags he had been carrying.

“What’s really happening?” Diana asked but her boyfriend didn’t have any response.

The entire persons around the counter were taken over by the aura that exhumed from Jason and as much as Richard didn’t want to admit, he too was taken aback by his words.

“Are you really going to stand there and listen to this fool Mr Finn?” Richard questioned the manager as he seemed to be taken over by Jason’s demeanor as he stood cold st
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