The Legendary Man

Chapter 105

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…

She then turned to Jonathan and coaxed, “Maybe you

“All right, then.”

naturally would not refuse her since he owed her too much in the past three

acquiescence, Miguel breathed a

was most afraid that the man would repudiate him and hold a grudge against the Smith family. Considering the influence he presently wielded, the Smith family

at the living room in the Smith

sat in the middle of the room with

earlier, he seemed much

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

“Mr. Goldstein!”

Hugo glimpsed Jonathan’s approach, he hastily

to the point, not

have a seat, Mr. Goldstein!” Hugo waved a hand,

his cup of tea before shifting his gaze to Hugo, demanding,

up Hugo’s features. Nonetheless, someone like him had long since trained 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,

Jonathan stated,

face flamed in mortification, yet he dared

in such a manner back then, I would’ve long since slapped

then.” After studying him intently for a moment, Hugo finally gave voice to his ultimate purpose. “I

 

“Spit it out.”

wanted to ask. In fact,

live-in son-in-law back then possess the capability to have someone from the King of War

simply could not make

“Yes,” Jonathan answered placidly.

you

him blithely, Jonathan questioned, “Is

Hugo hurriedly shook his head. “I’m just sort of curious about the experiences you’ve 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 offer his regards. It seems that the

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