" Why should we request for your help? You could barely feed yourself and just because you are eating something better than us, you must have thought that you have it all?' Clara asked him angrily.See the woman he was even trying to pity. She looked so angry that he wondered why he had said that in the first instance. " You must have thought that you are a king, right? Just because of the so many meals on your table but guess what? We can settle our shit ourselves without you trying to help us out! We are not as broke as you think but that is how the wealthy think!" Henry said while Mira scoffed. All were tactics because Jack was just so poor." You should not have gotten yourself involved in their shit. Do you enjoy getting humiliated?" Mira asked and stared at him while he smiled. Humiliation was something that he had agreed to deal with ever since he was young and poor. It did not really freak him out aside from the fact that if he was extremely embarrassed and felt like he had a
" What? No, son. You want me to get the big boss's number?" He asked, still in shock.Big boss? What did his father mean by that? Was his father serving someone again? Were they not also the boss after him? Was there something that he was missing? He wondered." I don't understand you, dad. What do you mean?" He asked again." Half of the wealth we own is mainly from Jack Kings! As famous as he is, no one knows him but all we know is that he controls a lot of businesses including us!"" How's that possible? How can you be under a boss? I thought that since you have granted the company to me, I am the boss of myself?" He asked again." Of course not! There was a time that our company had gone bankrupt. There was no means of survival and you were so young back then and may have probably forgotten by now. The Kings helped us get back on our feet. You see the company in India is for them. The chains of businesses I control here is for them and that is because half of the wealth I own come
Are you okay?" Mira asked as she noticed the look on his face while the rest of them scowled." Oh, he must have noticed that the money he had spent was too much or can't even pay up for what you guys have eaten! You know, Mira, it's not too late to come back to papa" Henry boasted while the rest of them laughed so hard." Goodness, Jack, probably you don't have enough to save you both asses. How about I help you out? you know, it's not too late to come over here and start begging on your knees being the pauper you are!" Anna said while they bursted out laughing again. " Mira, I'm sorry but can you give me few minutes?" He said instead and stood up. Without waiting for her reply, he rushed off while the others burst out laughing which further embarrassed her so much. " And what's so funny?* She asked and pretended as if she was still eating even though she was already full. Could this mean that he already ditched her because he did not have the money to pay for the meal they had
Mira's heart skipped a bit when she saw whom she had dreaded to see the most. Alicia? She thought and wished that the ground would surely open up and swallow her. She was the last person that she wished that she would ever see again." Mira, are you alright?" Jack asked while she looked like someone that wanted to cry. This was surely going to be an embarrassing moment for her and she already wished that Zoe was around at the moment.Why did she not even go with them in the first instance? she was screwed. She thought, not knowing how best she would have her head raised up. " Of course not. How would she be?" Alicia answered." And who the hell are you?" Jack asked while the woman looked at him from his head to his toe and laughed a bit. " Sorry? Who the hell are you instead? Oh, tell me. You're the chick she's probably going out with now? Your boyfriend, Mira?" She asked but Mira did not say anything instead. Seeing her expression, she burst out laughing." Goodness! Don't tell
" Okay, if that's it. See you too soon, then!" He said and smiled. " Yeah and I believe that it would be fun seeing you two together. It's been a while we've picked on you. I think it will be better that way!" She said and smiled again." Do you really think that you can pick on her when she had someone like me around her?" Jack said and held her hands while Mira looked at him getting so much pissed off. This man was taking this so far. She was only doing this so that she would pretend that she was strong and yet, this guy was really taking this to another whole level. What's wrong with this man? For the very first time, she disliked the fact that she had seen the both of them together. Maybe she should have just listened to her friends instead! She thought angrily even though she managed to smile. " wow! you must have thought that you are also some important person with the way you just talked. one would have thought that you are some sort of a business man" she said and laughed.
Just then, she titled her head and realized something." Hold on, do you think that because you must have won some sort of betting, you would be able to go there? So, if you were asked what your family occupation would be, what would you say? Do you plan on ruining my life?" " Urgh! Would you be surprised if I told you that? You know what, don't bother! It's fine if you also look down on me. I just thought that you were different from them?!' he said and walked away while she sighed sadly. Why was he not seeing things the same way she was? He was poor and she was literally trying to tell him that she would not be able to go with him. She thought and sighed as she sent him a text. Maybe she had really hurt his feelings or she should not have thought about that but then, he had put her in a very tight position. I'm sorry about what happened earlier but can I see you instead? Not today but any other days so that we can talk about the party. She sent and sighed. He had created a mess
" What? Dad! What do you mean by that?" Henry asked and frowned. He was sure that this pospy was telling lies because he still had a whole of plans. He needed money to possibly win Mira back and if at all he doesn't win Mira back, he could not just think that he would be able to just get accustomed to the fact that they were really so poor. Like what the hell? Then, he would be like that poor Jack that had nothing? Nah! Instead, he would just go about borrowing money and live the life he was accustomed with. " How could you think of borrowing some damned money and use that company to stand out? We literally own just 25% of the company revenue and I told you this! Now, see what you have caused us. We need to appear in the court by next week unless we are able to pay up in which I doubt you would ever be able to!" He yelled out angrily. Hold on! This man is really right about all what he is really saying right now? They were going to appear in the court? He did not think that what he
" What? Me? I am not expecting any letter!" He said and tore open the letter. Huh? Someone it seemed to him that the person that wrote this letter knew him very well! He thought as he read the letter." What does it say?"" The man wants me to be in the court and not you!" He said and scoffed." Dad, just who the hell is this man you call the boss? I really want to know him! What the hell? He really wants me to appear in court or would have to face a fine of three million dollars damages and still come to the court on another appointed date?" He asked and threw the paper away furiously. " What should we do now? I really don't know the boss and…"" Common, dad! That's how you keep saying and… I don't even understand you. Why the hell did you have to sign a contract with a man you were not even sure existed? Why did you have to sign a contract with a man they you do not even know existed?"" Well, what were you expecting? Unless you did not want to attend those expensive high school a