CHAPTER 8
Jack 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.Between Jack and Trent, Trent was the bigger man in size and merely looking at them as they sized each other up, you would think Jack was no match for him.“I won’t repeat myself, get out of my way,” Jack felt his anger rising and rising. He was losing his temper like he had never lost it before.“Haha!” Trent started laughing. “Who do you think you are huh? You think because you went to jail for a few days, you are now some crime boss? Leave now and I may just spare you.”“Deal with him Trent! He had the nerve to attack me and Marcus, he even called his dogs out on us and locked me in here, can you imagine?”When Charlotte, who had been quietly observing the interaction between the two men, saw how Trent looked like he could easily deal with Jack, she decided to speak up. Who was Jack anyway? Just an ordinary pauper garbage boy. Trent was the sole heir to the Garner family, the fifth richest family in Coral city.Jack wasn’t surprised at Charlotte's lies. Right now, he was losing his cool and the entire family was frustrating him.“Is that true Jack? You attacked my family?” Bianca was furious.“Why is it so easy for you to believe them but not me? I’m sorry I didn’t come home as soon as I was released but I’ve been in a coma since. Bianca, why would you kiss another man in front of me? I am your husband.”Jack’s tone was serious as he spoke but the remorse he felt for not returning home immediately could also be heard clearly in his voice.“Mr. Man, she is no longer your wife, now get out of here. Now!”“And if I don’t?” Jack stared Trent down as he clenched his fist.“Hey don’t act all tough with me! One call! Just one call and I can make you disappear from the face of the earth,” Trent boasted haughtily. He wasn’t bluffing. He thought Jack was nothing to him, that he could crush Jack under his feet and nothing would happen.Jack wasn’t a bit scared of Trent despite Trent’s power and influence and he was fed up with these people treating him below his true worth just because they believed they had more money than him and this one even had the effrontery to kiss his wife and threaten him?“I guess you won’t take this personally then since you’re going to make me vanish from the earth,” Jack replied smugly and with that, he threw a straight hook at Trent’s nose.Crunch!“Motherfucker,” Trent cursed as he held his nose. Blood…there was blood everywhere. Jack had broken his nose.“Boys…..” Jack growled dangerously. “Attack!”Before the words even left Jack’s mouth completely, the dogs were already on Trent, dragging him down, clawing and biting him in different places.“Please, Please,” Trent begged in tears. “My back, my foot, Ah! Tell them to stop! Bianca help me please!”Charlotte, Marcus and Luke who had witnessed the first scene were completely stunned. They all wondered what had given Jack such confidence to attack a man as influential as Trent with his dogs. Surely now, Jack was a dead man.“Call them off, Call them off,” Bianca cried bitterly, slapping on Jack’s chest repeatedly. The dogs tearing into and clawing a helpless Trent on the floor was like a horror movie to her.“Come here boys,” Jack ordered and immediately the vicious and bloodied mouth dogs were at Jack’s feet again, as docile as lambs.“You will pay for this, you will pay for this! Look at me, Look at me. As for you Bianca, I am calling off the wedding,” Trent said as his driver, who was too scared of the dogs to come out earlier, helped him into his car.“What wedding Bianca? What is he talking about?” Jack asked Bianca, feeling very confused.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
CHAPTER 16“Defending ourselves against them is completely legal but torturing them for information isn’t, besides I have a pretty good idea who might have sent them,” Jack replied.“Whatever you say chief,” Cole replied before he kicked Tiger’s nut and despite the crippling pain Tiger experienced, he couldn’t express it, only in his eyes could it be seen.“You heard the boss, load them up,” Cole said, tossing one of the men into the garbage truck.Jack walked up to him. “So you want a job right?” “Anything chief, I can drive, I can pack dirt and I even have some administrative skills,” Cole replied.“I’ll give you a job but not for any of those things. From today you are my personal assistant and bodyguard,” Jack announced with a grin.He knew this was not the last he was going to hear from these men and Cole displayed some really effective skills so why not have someone like him around.Cole felt elated and goosebumps washed up on his skin. He didn’t know what to say or how to feel.