Chapter: Chapter 557: The Price of LoyaltyThe days following his confrontation with Mark felt like an endless storm to Justin. The stench of betrayal hung over him like a cloud, darker and heavier than any he had ever known. It was not just Mark's actions that wounded him; it was the realization that even those he trusted most were capable of turning against him. His empire, his family, the people he had built everything for, none of them were safe.In the quieter times when Justin wasn't surrounded by the unrelenting demands of his empire, the loneliness of the entire thing settled on him,In the silence of his penthouse, the cold glass walls offer no comfort. He knew this day would come. But it's still painful. The idea that someone he trusted, people who have stood by him for many years, can decide to betray him.It cuts deeper than any opponent that he had ever faced. But he didn't have the leisure to brood over it. The fight with Ethan was far from over, and Mark was just one casualty in this war. The loss of loyalty
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Chapter: Chapter 556: ReckoningThe room was silent when Justin re-entered. His expression was cold and disbelieving. There was no need for an explanation to the group still seated around the table for what had happened. The tension hung in the air. Every person in the room knew, it seemed, instinctively that a bomb had just gone off.And the consequences will cause serious damage. Mark sat at the head of the table. His fingers tapped the polished wood nervously. His usual confident demeanor was gone. It was replaced by a feeling of discomfort radiating from him. Justin could see it in the way his eyes avoided his gaze. But there had been more-something darker, something deeper. Silently, Justin walked toward the tabletop; his footsteps rang harsh in the otherwise silent room. Mark's eyes flicked up, catching everything else for the briefest instant before quickly looking down.“Everyone out,” Justin said, his voice harsh, commanding. There was no space for dissent.The team, sensing the heaviness of the moment,
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Chapter: Chapter 555: The Enemy WithinJustin sat in his office, staring at the files Mark had delivered earlier. The quiet hum of the city outside his window was a stark contrast to the storm raging inside him. A leak found in his own company—what he thought was kept safe—had just turned into a full-blown leak. People close to him are betraying him. And he didn't know who it was.In his head, Mark's words played on repeat, but it was the stabbing betrayal that hurt the most. He had single-handedly built this company as anything by steel-back-end deals, through a relentless strategy, and with the will to establish iron-clad grounds for its existence. And now, someone within his entire circle began tearing it all apart and selling to the highest bidder. A slap against the face, and Justin wasn't certain how to take it. He instantly picked the phone, dialing Mark's number. It rang once and twice, and right then came Mark's voice.“Justin?”“Where are we with the leak?” Justin’s voice was clipped, every word laced with an
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Chapter: Chapter 554: The Forgotten FoeUpon waking, Justin felt gnawing uneasiness. He had won relatively hard and long, but as he walked in the office that morning, something was not right; the air felt heavy, the tension intense and indiscernible. Somehow, Justin couldn't seem to shake an inner feeling that someone was still perhaps watching, waiting for just the right moment to make his move.“Good morning, Mr. Drogonuv,” Mark’s voice broke through the silence as Justin walked into his office. The assistant’s usual upbeat tone was tinged with something more serious. “We need to talk.”Justin raised his eyebrows but waved his hand for Mark to continue. "what happened?" Mark's expression was tense, and Justin immediately felt a sense of urgency in the room.“It’s about the company’s recent movements. "I notice a few discrepancies in our financial reports. At first, I thought it was simply an oversight, but I now doubt it," Justin's heartbeat sped up. “What kind of irregularities?”“A few transactions that don’t add up.
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Chapter: Chapter 553: A New HorizonThe dust has settled. But the war was not truly over. Ethan's fall from grace was swift and unyielding. But Justin knows the road ahead isn't without challenges. As the remnants of Ethan's empire collapsed, Justin is forced to face the reality that his tireless victories have come at a terrible cost.The meeting room is quiet. It was the silence that came only after a fight. Board members who were once concerned about Justin's methods, Now they looked at him with a different respect. They understood the stakes, the price paid for survival in this ruthless world.But for Justin, respect is not as important as the weight of his decision. He sat at the head of the table, looking around at the face he was leaning on. Mark stood on the side. His normally confident demeanor was now marked with a delicate caution. Ava sat across from him. Her eyes narrowed as she examined the information in front of her. “Ethan's downfall has left a void in the market,” Justin said in a low but firm tone,
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Chapter: Chapter 552: The Final BlowThe days that followed the media explosion were chaotic. Ethan’s empire, once a towering structure of influence and wealth, was now a crumbling shell. He had endured the tumult of the tragedy caused by the scandal of Samuel Dayton, more than anything that Justin had ever expected. It had spread so far and caused investors to back out. But Justin was well aware that it was not yet over. He was indeed cornered, but that did not mean he was out of the game.One evening, Justin sat in his office, the dim light from his desk lamp lighting up long shadows on the wall. His thoughts are sharp and organized. With no room for complacency at this moment. It is time to end it all. Ethan has been a thorn in his flesh for far too long. And Justin knows the only way to truly destroy him is to take away everything that matters to him.As he searched through the documents on the table Mark walked in with a solemn expression. “we have a situation. Ethan is trying to play his last card. Word is that
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Rise of the Rich and Powerful Jamie Ashford
On the day Jamie lost his mother to cancer, he also lost his only accommodation and his girlfriend. Years of torture, humiliation and servitude from his stepfather and stepbrothers, Jamie was nothing more than a miserable bastard to the Reynolds, one they so desperately needed to do away with. His mother’s death was their perfect opportunity as his stepfather evicted him from his house, abused him and his dead mother publicly, and ordered the doctor to sell her corpse to organ harvesters.
His stepbrothers made a spectacle of him and his dead mother, treating them as though they were worse than animals. And to crown their hall of humiliation, they took his girlfriend and cost him his job. With everything lost, there was nothing to live for anymore. Jamie owed the hospital over $100,000 and his boss over the same amount. His life was at risk, his existence was meaningless, and everything was set against him…
Except for a sudden alert of $10,000,000,000 and a call from the world’s richest and most powerful man, claiming to be his grandfather. Jamie wasn’t a bastard after all; he had a family—a rich and powerful family at that—and he was their rightful heir.
With a net worth of tens of trillions of dollars and the power to shut down the world with the snap of his finger…
What fate awaits all those who did him wrong?
What end has he destined for those who mocked his dead mother and her dignity?
What was in the heart of the trillionaire for those who made his life hell and paraded their measly change over him?
Revenge is best served cold…Or whatever temperature the Rich and Powerful Jamie Ashford wants!
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Chapter: Chapter 137
He was reminded of what had happened when they met Tyson Crook for the first time. This was when their alliance began, with the sole goal being to take down Jamie for the humiliation he caused them and Sonia’s birthday party.Currently, though, Jamie had revealed one surprise after the other, leaving Nathan to really think about their position. He has long informed Tyson through the GC about the unexpected development in their target, Jamie. With the bodyguards, wealth, and status within campus, taking him down would require more effort than just a call to hire street thugs.Back to the present,Stacy gave her older brother a glare. “Yeah, I'm still hanging around Billy. So what? Because of the fucked up thing you guys did to him, he's not even sure he will be safe back at his condo. He had to stay at Jamie's new place. It wasn't until recently that Jamie got him to relax by promising to lend him some of his bodyguards.”She then raised a thumb at herself. “As for me, I've promised
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Chapter: Chapter 136
With this conversation being had, it is revealed that the Reynold brothers' capabilities were not talents they were born with. Whether it's Nathan's high intellect or Jonathan's abnormal physique, they were engineered genetically by supplements, and based on their father's words, he was the one who orchestrated everything.The AS99 Organization, and what they do as the largest and most powerful military power in the world, privatized under the absolute rule of the Ashford clan, is well known to the entire world.The soldiers, the rankings within the organizations, the evolved bodies, and the manifestations of their powers. Every single one of these concepts had long been known and fully comprehended by the public. The only thing keeping the AS99 Organization as some untouchable powerhouse is the fact that the world government has long-established rules that any agent of that organization should be avoided on sight. No civilian should dare attempt to interact with soldiers of the org
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Chapter: Chapter 135
Gordon spoke to this. “Considering what happened with the article on campus, Vice-Chancellor Trey should be in serious trouble for allowing the sugar-daddy-dating allegation to even reach so many students. We might not be able to count on him for a while.”To that, Nathan pulled out his phone. “Actually, we might not be able to count on him at all. I saw this news article published this morning.”He slid his phone across the desk, to which Benard looked down to find a picture of the vice-chancellor's burned house, following the confirmation of his severe injury, which might take months to years before he would be completely healed.Bernard tightened his fist. “Fuck!”He allowed a moment of silence to pass, before he spoke with a calmer tone. “Do you think the Ashford subordinate was responsible for this?”Nathan cast a glance at Gordon before he replied. “From my deduction, Dad, it's likely retaliation for allowing the scandalous article to spread. But then…”Bernard sighed with an a
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Chapter: Chapter 134
Nathan found an almost naked woman with seductively tanned skin sitting in his father's lap, having her neck sucked.This woman had a lean but curvy build, her head tilted to the side as Bernard Reynold held her in his lap, licking, sniffing, kissing, and then sucking her slender neck. He kept mumbling to her. “Do you like that, my love?”The woman giggled before it was cut short with a gasp, and she nodded her head with a meek hum, her slender fingers trailing into the man's invited shirt to feel his hairy chest. “Mmmmh! Yes, I like that a lot. You sure know how to make me less tense after a hectic day at work.”Bernard chuckled with a low growl. “Well, it's no worries when I'm dealing with such a sexy body like yours, Edie. You're my goddess, and I wanna praise your body like this and in a thousand various ways every day.”Edie, from the name Edette Mendoza. A Filipino-born rising actress in Hollywood, already worth around $30 million. This is Bernard's girlfriend, the woman who w
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Chapter: Chapter 133
Something flew through the air, striking Jonathan in the back of his head, shutting him up mid-sentence. He lifted his hand to rub the back of his head, feeling a dull ache. “What the…”He looked down to find that there was a familiar phone on the ring floor. He looked up to find his older brother now standing outside the ring with his hands in his pockets as he glared at him.Jonathan immediately felt an ache in his heart, seeing his older brother's glare. He whispered out in a soft tone. “Big Bro? Did you just throw your phone at me? W…What was that for?”Nathan stared up at his younger brother. “That's for being an idiot. Why would you talk to Head Butler Bricks like that? You were very disrespectful, did you know that?”Everyone in the training room felt the atmosphere grow tense as Nathan spoke. There was something weird in the air with the two brothers staring at each other, like the stone in the space between them was undulating at an off-putting pace, but these people just as
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Chapter: Chapter 132
After defeating these bodyguards who were definitely forced into this battle ring against him, by him, Jonathan felt a bit better, but there was still a residue of anger left within him. He clapped his hands loudly as he began pacing back and forth in the ring. “Alright, break time's over, bitches! Get back on your fucking feet and come at me again!”The four bodyguards, including the one who had been thrown out of the ring earlier, glanced at each other with worry etched in their faces before they stood in a line and fell to their knees with their heads bowed.“We tap out, Young Master Jonathan! You win!”Jonathan halted momentarily before he scoffed, placing a hand on his hip. “You guys can't be serious. Did I tell you to quit on me! Get on your fucking feet and fight me!”One of the bodyguards pointed at a signboard posted largely in the training room. “Young Master, I’d like to take this moment to remind you of the rules and regulations placed in this training room. Once an oppo
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