2026-04-30 20:11:02The manager's eyes narrowed as he took in Jessi's protective stance. He felt jealousy seeing how close she was standing to Reed, and she never came close to him even though he had given her a job in such a prestigious establishment.
Seeing that she seemed to like Reed made Mr Brown's anger flare up even more, now he did not just want Reed arrested, he wanted him punished and humiliated.
He had hired Jessi simply because of how pretty she was. He did not care about her credentials or any other thing from her resume. All that he had cared about was that her skin was smooth as milk, hair so lucious and eyes so bright.
He wanted her for himself. He was even willing to fast-track her career if she would be with his girlfriend.
He had thought that she would be grateful for the job, after all not many young people were lucky to be hired in the legal department of Golden Gate hotel.
But instead, Jessi had been doing everything in her power to avoid him.
She refused to meet up with him in private and would always find an excuse to come with someone else when he asked her to come to his office.
He had been annoyed but patient, believing that she like many other young women who had worked in the hotel would eventually submit to him.
But after all his consideration, she had turned around to not only oppose him but to protect the person opposing him.
His face hardened and he swore silently that today was the last day that Jessi would spend as a staff in the hotel unless she showed him how sorry she was.
"Miss Jessi, do you understand who you are standing against?"
"Mr Brown, I am sorry but we cannot victimise a guest because of how he looks. He has paid, we should appologise and let him go to his room."
Reed watched the exchange with growing interest. Jessi was putting her career on the line for a stranger. After his experience with Selene, Reed had become disillusioned and automatically believed most women were golddiggers.
That was either incredibly noble or incredibly stupid. Either way, he owed her.
Reed glanced at his system interface. A new notification glowed softly.
[Asset acquisition: Pending confirmation. Estimated completion: 30 seconds.]
He almost smiled. The system worked fast.
Mr Brown straightened up and looked from Selene's face to Reed.
"I see what is happening here. Miss Jessi, you must be the accomplice of this man standing here. You both planned to steal from the hotel hmm?"
Jessi's face went white as sheet.
"Mr Brown, what are you saying? How can you say such a thing?"
"If what I say isn't true, Jessi. Leave the man to stand alone and face the consequences for his own actions."
She knew exactly what Mr Brown was trying to do.
He was trying to intidimdate her, but she had had enough of him.
She would rather quit the job, than let him think he had a hold on her.
Jessi sensed insinctively that if she allowed Mr Brown bully her today it would only be the beginning. He would be sure to try to harass her more aggressively.
Jessi was worried about what she would do for a job if she lost this one, it had taken her a very long time to secure this one. The benefits were very nice and she enjoyed the work.
She glanced at Reed and worried about if she was betting on the wrong horse, because things could get really bad if he actually did not have the money.
Then she remembered that the expression on his face was the same one before he paid for the penthouse. She straightened her spine and looked Mr Brown in the eyes.
"I can't do that because it would be wrong, Mr Brown."
“You’ve made your choice, from this moment on, you are no longer an employee here.”
Mr Brown was disappointed with Jessi's answer and he leaned closer.
“I could have taken care of you, but you decide to choose this loser over me. I will make sure you regret this.”
"You are fired, Miss Jessi and you will go rot in jail." Mr Brown straightened up and spoke furiously.
“Careful, you might want to check who you’re talking to before you start firing people. For all you know, you might be the one getting fired.” Reed said lazily.
"Why are you still talking to me. Guards! take the both of them away."
As the guards reached out to grab Reed and Jessi, the reception phone suddenly rang, shocking everyone.
"Pick it up!" Mr. Brown barked.
Martha turned around and grabbed the receiver. Her eyes widened. She looked up at Mr. Brown.
"It's the CEO, He wants to speak to you, sir." " she whispered.
Mr. Brown snatched the phone from her hand. He noticed the guards still gawking at Reed and Jessi.
"Didn't I tell you to get rid of those two?" he snapped.
Then, with an air of practiced charm, he brought the receiver to his ear.
"Vincent Brown speaking. To what do I owe the honor, sir?"
His smile turned to a frown.
“I… I beg your pardon?”
His fingers tightened around the receiver.
“What do you mean sold…?”
The color drained from his face and he nervously moistoned his suddenly dry lips with his tongue.
"What family is the Hawke family, who is Reed Hawke?"
Jessi’s breath caught.
The name echoed in her mind.
Reed… Hawke? She turned and glanced at Reed, standing and looking unbothered.
Mr Brown felt a drop of sweat on his forehead at the name.
He had not bothered to ask the miscreant's name but he felt like he had heard Jessi call that guy Reed. But no, it could not be the same guy.
"You are on your way to the hotel, Sir?"
Mr Brown's heart started to beat fast.
He handed back the reciever to Martha. He needed to be on his best behaviour so that the CEO could praise him to the new owner.
"I said, take them away." He yelled at the guards and tried to hurry them along quickly.
It would not do for the boss to come in and see this mess.
Suddenly, the lobby doors slid open.
Conversations died instantly.
A man in a sharp tailored suit stepped in, his presence alone commanding silence.
It was Golden Gate hotel's CEO, Mr Gold. He had on a displeased expression as he saw that the lobby looked in disarray.
"What is happening in here. Mr Brown."
"It's nothing, Mr Gold. Just some issues I'm already dealing with. You don't have to worry about that, let's go to my office and discuss."
"Mr Gold! This is Reed Hawke." Jessi screamed as the guards pulled her away.
"Mr Reed." Mr Gold exclaimed, his eyes wide in shock.
"Release them at once!"
Mr Gold turned around and glared fiercly at Mr Brown.
"What is the matter with you, why are you handling Reed Hawke roughly? Don't you know he is the new owner?"
Mr Brown's jaw dropped and he turned and looked at Reed who was staring back at him.
Reed's eyes felt like lasers melting him into jelly.
Mr Brown's mouth opened… but no words came out.
"Mr Gold, what did you just say?" Mr Brown's lip was trembling as he talked.
"Mr Reed just paid $580 million dollars for the hotel, it belongs to him now."
"Oh god." Martha said and felt a wave of dizziness so strong she almost threw up.
Reed allowed himself a small smile. Six months ago, he was busy scrubbing the floors of the rooms and now, he owned the building.
The system interface pulsed softly in his vision.
[Well played, Host.]
[Asset acquisition complete: Golden Gate Hotel]
[Total value: $580,000,000]
[Mission Progress: Get Ostentatious Living Accomodations, Accomplished.]
[Reward: Unlocked - Ability To See Peoples Debts]
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The lobby fell into a suffocating silence, No one could even say a single word or even breath too loudly.The weight of Mr Gold’s words still hung heavily in the air.“He is the new owner.”It echoed in every mind present.Reed on the other hand was stunned as he looked at the people in the lobby, everyone had figures hanging over their heads. Every single one of them was in debt.He was shocked because he did not expect rich people to be in debt but from what his new ability showed, everyone had debts ranging from $600 to $2,000,000.Suddenly, his thoughs were interrupted by Martha she collapsed into a chair behind her, her face drained of all color.Angie who had been on her knees the entire time, her hands clasped together as tears streamed down her face. She felt that there was no salvation for her, she had insulted her boss.Even the guards who had been grabbing Reed and dragging him away quickly pulled away their hands as if they had just touched fire.At the center of it all, R
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The manager's eyes narrowed as he took in Jessi's protective stance. He felt jealousy seeing how close she was standing to Reed, and she never came close to him even though he had given her a job in such a prestigious establishment.Seeing that she seemed to like Reed made Mr Brown's anger flare up even more, now he did not just want Reed arrested, he wanted him punished and humiliated.He had hired Jessi simply because of how pretty she was. He did not care about her credentials or any other thing from her resume. All that he had cared about was that her skin was smooth as milk, hair so lucious and eyes so bright.He wanted her for himself. He was even willing to fast-track her career if she would be with his girlfriend.He had thought that she would be grateful for the job, after all not many young people were lucky to be hired in the legal department of Golden Gate hotel.But instead, Jessi had been doing everything in her power to avoid him.She refused to meet up with him in priv
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Reed chuckled at the sound of the receipt being printed and wondered if he would ever get used to having enough money to spend on anything he wanted.I could get used to this, he thought to himself. "It really went through." Angie whispered to herself in a daze of disbelief.Angie who had been mouthing off beside Martha would never have bellieved that someone that looked like Reed would actually have that sort of money. She immediately sank to her knees and clasped her hands together."Please, forgive me sir."If she had known how things would end, she would have aligned herself with Reed right from the minute he walked in.But Martha was Angie's senior at work and she had started insutling Reed first, so it had been easy for Angie to follow Martha's lead and insult him too.And doing that had led her to oppose someone who could pay a seventy three million dollar bill without blinking. If he complained, she was sure to lose her job.She was ready to throw herself at his feet and beg
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The receptionist promptly raised her face with a friendly expression, but then her smile fell off when she saw the person who was requesting the most expensive suite in the hotel. She fought the urge to chuckle and rolled her eyes.Based on his outfit, the receptionist could only assume that Reed was there on a ridiculous dare.After all, at two hundred thousand dollars per night, the penthouse was their most expensive suite and was reserved for the truly elite such as presidents and royalty.And this loser did not look like he had ever seen a thousand dollars, let alone two hundred thousand. And he said he wanted it for an entire year. The receptionist did a quick mental calculation and then her eyes widened.An entire 73 million, did he even know what that looked like?"You must be at the wrong place. Why don't you try another hotel?" The receptionist said impatiently and went back to concentrating on her screen.She wanted him gone before more important clients came in and saw him.
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Reed groaned and tried to get comfortable but that single movement made him feel like he had been crushed by a truck.His eyes flew open, showing a white ceiling right above his head. He stared in confusion, wondering where he was."Welcome back to the land of the living." A voice said and a smiling nurse came within his line of eyesight."I will just go and get the doctor right away."Then he heard footsteps and the door opened before it closed shut."Why am I in the hospital?" He wondered.The next moment, the memories of the previous night flooded in and then he remembered the humilaition he had faced at Selene and her lover's hands.To make matters worse, he had run into those thugs that wanted to carve him up for organs.Suddenly, he heard a loud, "Ding!"Reed remembered that after he had been hit with by the car, just before he had fallen unconcious, he had also heard that same alarm tone.He looked around for the phone which had just pinged, but then he heard a female voice tha
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"Reed, please sign the divorce agreement and set me free." Selene held out a bunch of papers and, when he remained shocked and unmoving, she flung them in his face.They were standing in the apartment Reed had rented for Selene with the meager salary from his three jobs."What have I done wrong, Selene? If this is a joke, it is a cruel one." Reed was on the edge of tears.Reed had been excited when Selene had sent a text inviting him over. They had always talked about how they could tell the whole world that they were a couple when she finally started getting good roles and it seemed that at last they had arrived at that point.Since Selene had just finished press for a pretty good role she had in a blockbuster, Reed assumed she had called him over to ask him to move in with her.Now, she was singing a different tune. He did not want to believe that Selene had called him here just to dump him after all the sacrifices he had made just for her happiness.Selene and Reed had grown up in
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