The person who had just arrived was Dean.
Right now, Dean’s face looked anxious, and it was as if someone had a fire lit under his bottom.
It was obvious that he had something very urgent to tell Jasper, but after seeing that Baz was still in the room and there was also a strange but extremely beautiful woman he did not know standing there, h e felt as if all the words he wanted to had been sealed by glue when they reached the tip of his tongue, such that he could not utter a single word.
“M-Mr. Laine, I have very important
matter to discuss with you.”
Dean stammered.
After reaching a private agreement with Jasper, Dean had subconsciously regarded himself as Jasper’s subordinate. This was a completely different feeling from before.
Although he did not want to admit it, he also understood that he had to rely on Jasper if he wanted to take over the power of the Haddock Chamber of Commerce. He had no other way.
Should he depend on Gale?
He would need to do things according to Jasper’s will before he could even talk to Gale.
Now that the Haddock Chamber of Commerce was under attack, Gale had no good solution, so he could only send Dean to find a way to get Jasper to take action. A t the same time, he would also regard this as a test for Dean in order to become his successor.
By doing so, he would also be currying
favors with Jasper. However, if he simply got close to Jasper, he could directly replace Gale and take charge of the Haddock Chamber of Commerce in one swift move. However, if he did what Gale wanted, he would only get the status of the successor. As long as Gale was still alive, he would not be able to even think about handling any real power.
Even if Gale died, the unruly guys of the Haddock Chamber of Commerce were extremely sneaky. Without Gale, Dean felt that he might not necessarily have the qualifications and experience to suppress those people.
Thus, when Jasper offered to privately cooperate, Dean agreed without hesitation.
The price of this agreement was that he would no longer be Jasper’s equal…
However, Dean also comforted himself. Even if he did not agree, did his current self posess equal qualifications and the possibility to be on the same level as Jasper?
“There is no outsider here, just tell me,”
Jasper said.
Jasper would not say this if it was Anna or
even Wendy in the room, but not Celine.
It was not that he was not close to those women, but their positions in JW were different.
Wendy was naturally closest to him and she was JW’s boss, but the problem also laid here. Jasper could not let Wendy know about a lot of the things that were classified as secrets.
According to Jasper’s plan, Wendy would b
e in charge of JW’s daily affairs, so the
dirty affairs that he handled that would need him to get in contact with external forces would not involve Wendy.
She was like the empress in ancient times. The emperor’s harem was under the jurisdiction of the empress and the emperor would not intervene, but at the same time, the empress would not intervene with the nation’s affairs.
Jasper could bear everything himself.
As for Anna, it was even simpler.
Although Anna was not a member of JW, because her relationship with him was extremely ambiguous and amorous, it was all but certain that Anna could not join the JW system. Jasper would forbid this because the Laws were behind Anna.
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