Chapter 105 The General Manager

 

Ahem!

 

Miguel stood there with embarrassment etched on his face, torn between staying and leaving.

He felt that he had come at a highly inopportune time.

“Is something the matter?” Jonathan’s expression went as black as thunder upon seeing Miguel, who had interrupted him out of the blue.

 

It had been four years since he and Josephine were married to each other, yet they had never even kissed.

Having gotten an opportunity to be intimate with her finally, he could not possibly show Miguel any courtesy for spoiling the mood.

“Mr. Goldstein, Dad would like to see you…” Miguel hung his head, not daring to look him in the eye.

Recalling his attitude toward the man in the past, he even found his palms a touch sweaty.

 

What if he’s a vindictive person? How am I going to survive in Jadeborough in the future then?

 

“I’m not free!” Jonathan declined right away.

If Hugo weren’t Josephine’s grandfather, I wouldn’t even bother saying anything to him! The Smith family and Hugo Smith are just ants!

“Mr. Goldstein…” When Jonathan turned him down without the slightest hesitation, Miguel instantly panicked.

Having no other recourse, he could only throw Josephine a pleading glance in hopes that she would lend him a hand.

Oh, well…

when she saw the man’s beseeching look. She then turned to Jonathan and coaxed, “Maybe you should go and see Grandpa in case he has something urgent to say to

“All right, then.”

since he owed her too much in

acquiescence, Miguel breathed a sigh

the influence

arrived at the living room in

with a glass of ginger tea

his intoxicated state earlier, he seemed much soberer right

over their faces. When Jonathan came in, they lowered their heads to avoid his

“Mr. Goldstein!”

Hugo glimpsed Jonathan’s approach, he hastily stood up

to the point, not in the mood

a seat, Mr. Goldstein!” Hugo waved a

his gaze to Hugo, demanding, “Whatever it is, just cut to

himself into putting on a facade. For him, concealing one’s emotions was the most fundamental skill, so he merely gave a strained chuckle despite his burning dissatisfaction toward the man’s attitude. “You left for three years back then, so I just want to have a talk with you, having not

Not interested in wasting time with him there, Jonathan stated, “I’m only giving you ten minutes.

yet he dared not unleash his

he had dared to speak to me in such a manner back then,

him intently for a moment, Hugo finally gave voice to his ultimate

 

“Spit it out.”

acquainted with the King of War, Mr. Goldstein?” That was the real question Hugo wanted to ask. In fact, it was not just

capability to have someone from the King of War

make any sense of

“Yes,” Jonathan answered placidly.

did you make

blithely, Jonathan questioned, “Is that all you wanted to ask

had in the past three years since not only the three prominent families of Jadeborough personally came to seek you out, but even someone from the King of War Division came personally to

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