After the phone call was connected, Javier asked, “Where’s this information you were talking about? I already have the Osborn Award in my hands.”However, the old fox was chuckling away as he said, “I watched the live broadcast last night. Not bad at all. You managed to win five out of the seven awards! Tsk, tsk!”Javier rather enjoyed being complimented by the old fox.However, at that moment, he wanted to know the information regarding his parents even more.After he asked about it continuously, the old fox finally said, “You’re the one who said that the information was on the underside, not me. I placed it in its stomach, so all you have to do is smash it.”Javier was slightly stunned. “I spent the better half of the past year to painstakingly win this award, yet you’re now asking me to smash it?”The old fox then asked in return, “Aren’t you planning on breaking whatever record you just made? Are you planning on being content with the glory you have forever?”Javier immediat
“God, I…I don’t know! I just took it to take a look at it, a-a-and it just cracked! I didn’t do anything, so why did it crack?” Dana cried, flummoxed and not at all sure what was happening. The trophy had looked fine, like no other, so how had it cracked into two just because she had lifted it out of curiosity?Then, her eyes drifted to the twitching lips on Javier’s face, which formed a snicker, desperately trying to hold a smile back.Damn it, she had just been trolled!“You annoying little—!” Dana blustered, stomping her feet. “You pulled off this annoying prank to scare me!”She was a forty-something-year-old woman in high heels, yet she looked adorable and not at all like other women her age. There was nothing jarring about her actions and age either. In Javier’s opinion, this only added to her charm.A beat later, Dana asked out loud, “Why break the little golden statue like that?”Javier took a deep breath. “Aren’t successes meant to be shattered so you can reach new heigh
“Well, Mr. Kersey. That was…something. As unique as it was curt.”Javier was about to get into his car with his documents in hand when Quinna gave the man her review.He laughed. “That’s because you’ve been distracting me with your stunning beauty, Miss Aurum. My mind just got so utterly messed up that I could hardly think straight!”Quinna captivated him with a sweet smile. “Really? You don’t seem messed up.”Javier was about to woo his new target when he suddenly remembered the World Car Award. “Say, Miss Aurum, you’re the expert here. I’d like to know something.”Certain that Javier was just another stereotypical playboy, Quinna had been smiling at him out of sheer decorum, work ethic, and little else. The H7 model would make decent sales if just a few clients with big coffers like him supported it, so there was not much to talk about.Seeing the seriousness in Javier’s features and speech pattern, though, surprised Quinna. Without so much as letting her smile falter, she repl
Javier’s L5 model tore through the freeway and went straight home.It was a smooth ride. His new car was comparable to his experience driving luxury cars with much-touted comfort, like the Bentley. This proved that this country had always been capable of producing good cars, and it was their focus on making cheap cars that had cost them. To make cheap automobiles, one had to skimp on materials and quality, so the cars produced faced enough mishaps and problems that the public distrusted their nationally-produced cars more and more.It was a little past nine by the time he got home. By then, Jade was training in their personal gym. A sexy, toned body needed maintenance after all. All that sweat was just tears of excess fat as it was burned away.Javier did not pay much attention to her activity at first, but the longer he watched, the more he suspected something else. His eyes began to widen in joy as he asked, “Don’t tell me…you’re gonna be a mom soon?”“What? No!” She protested co
Chad’s nominee was a nearly fifty-year-old man named Trevor Hammond. Javier had heard of him before on the news. He used to be the leader of one of the nation’s local car manufacturing companies. He had later been reported for bribery and fraud—charges that had caused him to go on a year-long sabbatical while being investigated.No incriminating proof had ever turned up, but this had cost him his position in the company. His career had taken a nosedive, and he had lost his leadership role.Javier was quick to bring this scandal up, which Chad countered by saying, “Nah. There was a civil war within the company back then. The whole investigation was meant to bring him down…”He filled Javier in. Apparently, Trevor was a stalwart, intrepid reformist. The kind of maverick whose sweeping reforms would sooner or later move some of his colleagues’ metaphorical “cheese”. Unsurprisingly, when a political war had broken out over power and profit, it was his enemies who had won with ease.“I’
Trevor’s honesty was insane based on its sheer audacity. So insane, in fact, that Libby was fuming.“What’s this supposed to mean, huh?! That just because you’re a dirt-poor mother*cker, you have the god-given right to leech off of me?! That just because you’re a dirt-poor motherf*cker, you have the f*cking privilege to demand sh*t from me?! You are a f*cking parasite living in my colon, eating and living off of me, and now you’re announcing your uselessness as though you’re f*cking proud of yourself! You f*cking piece of sh*t, have you no shame?!”Trevor shook his head. “Believe it or not, there’s something else I have even less of: money.”As if to prove his point, he picked up the money scattered across the floor without giving a damn about Javier watching him. If anything, reality had made a strong case of proving Trevor’s shamelessness.History, however, was rife with examples of people who thought having shame was detrimental to their success before they hit their stride. The
Javier did not stay in Trevor’s home any longer. He came to reawaken the titan—it did not mean he was going to stay for the rumble. Solving this imbroglio between Trevor and Libby with her lover was between those two.Javier descended the stairs, got into his car, and waited quietly. He had come here alone but did not intend to go back alone.About two minutes later, the lover clambered downstairs in a flurry suggesting a panicked man running away. One look at that face and one would have thought someone had died inside. Javier doubted that was possible, though. Trevor had been suffering this abuse for years on his end. He did not endure all of that torment, saving money just to be locked up for manslaughter.Reality proved to align itself with Javier’s prediction. Another ten minutes passed before Trevor and Libby came down the stairs in tandem. As the man passed his car by, he informed Javier, “Please be patient, boss. On my way to get a divorce. Will be right back.”His impassiv
Trevor’s rage was palpable.He should be. He used to be the commander, then someone stole it away from him and framed him for more than a year. His life had been plunged straight to the nadir.However, there was more to his fury. He was angry that the nation’s technological advancement had once made it possible to take the lead before every other country. And yet a small cabal managed to stall an entire generation worth of innovation…over their myopic profit.What angered him most was that these were the very same people whose family members enjoyed clear blue skies and fresh, unpolluted air overseas. The same people who drove around in luxury cars and lived in posh mansions while insisting indignantly that they had worked themselves to their *sses to advance the nation’s technology.These were the leeches who had banished Trevor from his position of power. And now, they posed as successful names and the pillars supporting the nation’s automobile industry.Trevor did his damndest