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"Invest?" Nathalie asked the person in front of her who had offered her a deal for investment in the business he was running. "I did not know you were a businessman," she smiled. He is an old friend from high school, after all.

They happened to bump into each other when Nathalie was working for a cafe. Jason happened to see her getting surrounded by Pablo and his gang. They are quite famous loan sharks that even Jason, who had lived in South East Asia since he graduated high school, heard of them.

He only moved back to America when he was getting serious with his business, saying that it had been making his hands full and that he needed to expand, but an investment was needed.

"Why don't you get a loan from a bank?"

"But it would not be beneficial to you and other of our friends in that way. My business is quite blooming these days, you see," he smiled at Nathalie as he drank his cup of tea. Nathalie smiled, 'He used to hate tea. He must have adopted it from Asia,' she thought befo
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