Rags To Riches: The Riveting Tale Of Jason Smith

Jason grumbled as he approached the huge abandoned warehouse, "What sort of punishment is this? Why will she tell me to come and steal something from the gangsters here? I'm sure she knows they'll beat me up if they find out. but since I need the money from her I have to swallow my pride and do it..." He crept into the abandoned warehouse and luckily for him, there was no one around. The entire place reeked of nicotine and masculine sweat, the floors were stained with grease and there were barrels of oil packed at different locations. He also saw a brand new hot rod car and he shook his head wryly, '...that must've been a stolen item. He was about to walk up to it and check it out when he heard the revving of car and bike engines outside. 'Oh no! They're back!' He couldn't leave the warehouse, so he quickly ran behind one of the barrels and hid just in time as the huge gates opened up to usher in the poorly dressed gangsters that were around fifteen in number– They were all dressed

RUBY CITY HOSPITAL, It seemed Jason was late because when he arrived at the hospital, he saw that his sick bedridden mother was now in the corridor. Her room had been evacuated for paying patients. Jason had to restrain himself from crying out in pain, as he quickly accosted the nurse in charge of his mother and began to question her. "Why's my mother no longer in her room? Why's she lying in the corridor?" "Is that supposed to be a question?" The nurse shot back impatiently at him, Jason seemed to be disturbing her "You and 'your wife' haven't paid the bills." "I know..." Jason replied, purposely ignoring the jibe at him using his wife, "..but you can't just leave an old helpless woman in the corridor to die like that?" "We just did, didn't we?" The nurse replied, and for a moment, Jason wondered whether she learned wickedness from the hands of the devil himself. "I'm sorry, Mr. Smith, but our policy here is no payment, no treatment. So you have to either take your mother home or

The old man turned and mumbled something to the manager. The manager nodded in reply and led a confused Jason out of the office."What was that?" Jason asked, he had expected the old man to dole out cash immediately but the man's response wasn't encouraging."Well... Your grandfather doesn't like your mother." The manager said as if it was a painful thing,"Huh? Why?" Jason asked,"Well... When your father brought you and your mother home and declared to everyone that he wanted to marry her, your grandfather kicked against it because he wanted your father to marry from a noble family. Your father wanted none of that and decided to run away with you and your mother. It was on the night of their escape that they had the accident which claimed the life of your father. As I told you earlier, we did not find the bodies of you and your mother so we assumed that you both had burnt to ashes in the flames, but grandfather insisted that you both were still alive and had an investigation team cre

Walking towards them from down the hall was the manager in his polished black suit that gave off a very wealthy impression of him at first glance. The dean recognized him immediately– in fact, everyone there recognized him immediately. No one in Ruby City did not know who that man was. The manager of Ruby City's branch of Pendragon Inc. "Sir!" The dean exclaimed and bowed his head to the manager. Jason was surprised at the sudden change of attitude– from a pompous threatening dean to a cowering butt-kisser. "What brings you to my hospital?" "I came with him." The manager said, pointing to Jason. "Him?" The dean was shocked, "you mean this man right here?" "Yes, and I've been waiting outside for a long time wondering why a simple payment was taking longer than usual." The dean gulped in fear, he had kept the manager waiting outside, what exactly was he thinking? And he was also telling the person that came with the manager to lick his shoes. 'Wait... Could it be related to why I a

Jason picked up the papers and looked at them. These were the divorce papers alright.He sighed and looked up at Amara and Tony."Divorce papers? So you're no longer interested in making me work for your family again?" Jason asked,"Oh no, you'll still be working for my family but I'll no longer be entitled to pay your mother's bills." Amara sneered,"Oh..." Jason retorted he didn't need her help to pay his mother's bills again so that meant that he didn't need to work for them again. A sneaky smile made its way to his face."Well, find a way to pay the 2 million dollars that you owe, or else you forget about your freedom! You must continue working for my family's company!" Amara yelled,Jason was silent for a while as he weighed his options. He knew that he was the heir but he that didn't mean that he could just go and ask for 2 million dollars upfront from his grandfather, but maybe his grandfather would be willing to help him with part of it. He would then work for the rest. But fo