CHAPTER 7
The smile on Luke’s face increased as the dogs pinned Jack to the floor but it vanished immediately, when he saw that instead of mauling and clawing Jack, the killer dogs were licking him and wagging their tails like puppies that were given gift bones.Jack chuckled on the floor as their tongues tickled his face.“Stop it Bruno.”“Be a good boy chasyn.”“Haha, stop that Milo.”“Craig….”All three spectators that were expecting to hear Jack scream and beg watched in horror as he laughed, being licked by and playing with the dogs.Their eyes popped out of their sockets and their mouths literally touched the floor as they stared at the sight before them.Not only were the vicious looking dogs being over friendly with Jack, the security guard did not even know that the dogs had names.Jack stood up from the floor as the four dogs circled around him, panting and wagging their tails in excitement. What the security guard did not know was that from the time when the dogs were puppies, Jack would always give them extra food and play with them. He was the one that also gave them their names and he also trained them to listen to his command. To the dogs, Jack was their best friend and master.“Such useless dogs, are they not supposed to be our security against criminals like him? Look at how they are playing with him. Just looking at them you would have thought they were deadly,” Marcus said and hissed, coming out of the security post.The moment he stepped out, the dogs rushed at him. He was about to run back inside but Charlotte had locked the door from inside.Bark. Bark. Bark.All four dogs had him pinned to the wall with nowhere to go, barking and snarling at him deathly, ready to tear him apart.“Get away, Get away,” Marcus cried like a baby as one of the dogs bit the helm of his trousers. It wasn’t the liquid that was rushing from Marcus' eyes that made Jack chuckle lightly but the one that wet his pants.Yes, Marcus was so scared that he had peed on himself.“Here boys,” Jack said and the dogs were immediately at his feet.“Now sit and stay,” He ordered, rubbing each of their heads and the dogs sat, staying put.While all this was going on, Charlotte and Luke were watching in shock and embarrassment, unable to do or say anything out of fear that Jack could set the dogs on them.Jack walked closer to Marcus to where he was standing.“What’s that smell?” Jack said with a mocking smirk as he scrunched and pinched his nose.“Did you pee on yourself Marcus? How about we go inside so you can change and I can talk to Bianca?”Jack was struggling hard to hold in his laughter. He didn’t believe how weak Marcus was that he even peed on himself.“What? Marcus, is that true?” Charlotte asked from inside, still afraid to come out.Marcus ignored her and answered Jack as he carefully avoided the dogs, walking towards the mansion. “Bianca is not home but you can go to your quarters and wait,” Marcus spoke very softly.Inside his head, Marcus was furious at Jack for embarrassing him like this. He was cussing out Jack in his head and vowing to deal with him but he did not dare to utter his grievances. For Marcus, the fear of those dogs was the beginning of wisdom.As Jack and Marcus walked inside, Charlotte yelled, realizing she would be stuck with the security guard and the dogs outside.“What about me? What about me?!”For a moment, Jack thought about leaving her stuck in the security post as a punishment for all the insults that she always hurled at him but no matter what, she was still the mother of his wife.“Luke, take them-” Jack paused when he saw a white Rolls Royce wraith that he had never seen in the compound before, driving up to the gate.Because Jack had ordered the dogs to stay, they were all as docile as lambs and didn’t bark at the car as Luke hurried to open the gate for the car to drive in.Jack watched the car with keen interest as it came to a halt right in front of him. The first person that stepped out of the car was someone that Jack absolutely hated.It was none other than Trent Garner, the same man who had been chasing his wife for three years. The same reason why her family has been pressuring him to divorce her.It was when Bianca stepped out behind Trent that Jack felt stunned and absolutely betrayed. To make matters worse, when Bianca saw Jack and stepped out of the car, she felt absolutely disgusted by him.She rolled her eyes at him and put her hands across Trent’s neck before she kissed Trent passionately right in front of Jack.CHAPTER 8Jack felt his blood boil and he clenched his fists before pulling them apart forcefully.“What is wrong with you Bianca?” Jack’s face was red hot and he fumed in anger, mixed with the heartbreak and betrayal he felt. “I am your husband! How dare you kiss another man in front of me?”“You are no husband of mine you asshole! What are you even doing here? I thought after you were released the shame had made you jump over a bridge or something,” Bianca replied with venom in her tone.What?! Jack was stunned. Bianca had never spoken to him like this before. Every word that left her lip felt like a needle piercing his heart. Was this all because he was framed as a criminal? Was that why she was talking to him like this and even kissing another man before his very own eyes?“Bianca……” Jack tried to touch her arms but Trent stepped forward and pushed Jack back.“Don’t you dare!” “Get out of my way! This is between me and my wife,” Jack spoke in a low but very cold and deadly tone.
CHAPTER 9Bianca ignored Jack and ran towards Trent’s car which was already making a turn to leave the compound and take. “You can’t do that Trent. No you can’t do that to me,” Bianca complained frantically and bitterly.“Why not?” Trent rolled down his window. “I already slept with you which was my major aim before and promising to marry you was just a trick to get you in my bed. Your crazy ex-husband just gave me the perfect excuse to call it off.” And with that his car zoomed off.Bianca felt like she couldn’t breathe. Just like she used and betrayed Jack, she had been used and betrayed. She crashed to her knees and started to cry.Jack couldn’t believe anything he had just heard of make any sense of it. He only felt a tugging pain in his heart. Bianca had cheated on him in the hopes of marrying Trent?Jack closed his eyes and two teardrops fell from each of his eyes from the pain he felt but how would she have married Trent when they were still married? It was then it dawned on J
CHAPTER 10Jack didn’t need to think too much to know who would’ve sent him that kind of money. He knew it was his family who was trying to bribe him to forgive them for casting him aside like they did.That money alone automatically made him one of the top ten richest individuals in Coral city and he knew there was more where that came from.The look on his wife and in-laws' faces almost made Jack laugh. “It’s a prank! Haha! You should see your faces right now. Where will an ordinary garbage man like me see that kind of money?”“What sort of stupid prank are you playing? I knew a pauper like you can never come across that kind of money,” Charlotte replied, sighing a huge sigh of relief. The momentary thought of Jack being richer than their entire family irked her greatly.Bruce hummed, putting his index finger to his lips and looking at Jack intently. Something told him that message didn’t sound like a prank. Why would Jack throw such a stunt? It was unlike him. Even if he hated Jack
CHAPTER 11The next morning, Jack asked Mildred to set up a meeting with the CEOs of those companies. He wanted to have a talk with them personally.His real identity was still not known to most people so there was no way the CEOs would know who he really was or that they just terminated business with their largest shareholders. Even as the son in law of the Kent family, they didn’t know him personally, only that he had a garbage business and they did business with him because of his association with the Kent family.“Do you know which of the investors want to see us?” Charles Baker, the CEO of Prime Logistics, the biggest logistics company in the city asked.He was in charge of moving imported supplies for the Kent family from the sea port to their warehouse.“I hear Blackbolt investments has a new director and he would like to meet us, at least that is what my assistant told me,” John Connor, the CEO of Havillah Marketing Group replied, they were in charge of marketing and distribut
CHAPTER 12The men’s eyes popped out of their socket, their hearts pounded with fear and their mouths dropped to the floor as they all stared at the documents they had just been handed. They couldn’t believe their eyes. Once the news of Blackbolt pulling out of their companies reached the news, other investors and shareholders would also panic and sell their shares and their companies would be worth next to nothing.“No, you can’t do this to us!” Charles Baker screamed his head off. Blackbolt personally owned 86 percent shares in his company. He would crumble without them backing him.“Please what did we do to deserve this?” Bale Juniper, the CEO of Atlas Packaging and Co. A company responsible for rebranding and repackaging some of the imported products to meet the country’s requirements before leaving the Kent family warehouse asked, his eyes almost teary.“Who asked you to do this? Who is that person? We have never failed to make profit for your company. You can’t just kick us out
CHAPTER 13While Jack was having that meeting with the CEOs, the Kent family mansion and its inhabitants were suffering the wrath of the Garner Patriarch, Stefan Garner, the grandfather of Trent Garner.The wounds the dogs had inflicted on his only grandson were severe and he was demanding for the head of the imbecile who dared to put dogs on him but the problem now was that no one in the Kent household knew where Jack was.“Where is he?!” Stefan asked furiously, his face red and full of veins. Though he was in his early sixties, he was still very fit and young. He wore Khaki shorts and a fitted shirt with thick leather boots which he intended to stomp Jack’s head with.“We already told you sir, we don’t know where he is. But I have killed the useless dogs. I poisoned them myself. Please, we have nothing to do with him anymore,” The usually proud Marcus begged on his knees desperately.One word from Stefan and the entire Kent family as they knew it would cease to exist. It was why they
CHAPTER 14Jack had just finished his meeting with those men after giving them a next to impossible condition and an even more dangerous ultimatum to fulfill it or they could kiss their companies goodbye.After leaving the venue of the meeting, he dropped Mildred at the airport where she took her private jet back home to their parents.The plan was for both of them to head back home before but with the latest developments, Jack decided to stay back and monitor things personally. Moreover an idea was slowly brewing in his mind. An idea to take over Coral city and build his own personal empire here.Heading back to the rented Villa from the airport, Jack changed out of his custom made fancy suit and expensive designer shoes and changed into a more regular trouser and shirt with his refurbished leather shoes and headed to his garbage company office.The office was basically just two rooms. One was for the admin staff, about seven of them, including Jack and his manager and the other for t
CHAPTER 15Jack was no pushover. He wasn’t an expert fighter and he couldn’t fight the ten men alone but he would never back down from a fight, never. The days of bending over for others and being a pushover was over, so he stepped forward.“Who are you and why should I come with you?” Jack questioned fearlessly.“It doesn’t matter who they are chief, one more step and they’re dead,” the homeless man said coldly, in a murderous tone. His eyes had gone red and were solely focused on the leader of the group.“Move aside rat or I’ll tear you apart limb from limb,” Tiger threatened the homeless man with a deep sneer on his face.It was not out of place for Tiger, a big man standing above 7 feet to call the other man a rat, he was much bigger and taller than the other man who was about 5 ft and 11 inches tall and though muscular, the man was nowhere as bulky as the intimidating tiger.But that man was deadly and he was definitely no rat. His name was Cole Turner, an ex special forces milita