"I'm wondering why you are fighting for the second position when the range from the first to the second position is unimaginable." William stated with squinted eyes.
The others were silent for a while as they thought that what William had stated was true. But still, there had to be a person that took over the second position, right?
The gap really didn't matter when it came to the numerical position. Even if there was a difference of sky and earth between the first person and the one that came after, that person would still be termed as the second.
"Why are you guys behaving like that? It's not like you have the abilities that Jack has even i
f you can match his handsome face. So, np matter what you do, there is no way that you can compete against Jack." Kelly stated when she saw that the guys had gone silent.
"Whatever you say. In the end, I'm still the one that won over your heart even though I'm not Jack's match." Anderson chuckled as he stated.
"Do you perhaps want me to dump you right now? If that is the case, then try saying something along that line again." Kelly looked at Anderson as she said ferociously. Though, there was a slight blush that was on her face as she threatened Anderson.
"Hehehe." The other three boys laughed when they saw how silent Anderson had gone after the threat from Kelly. It seemed that the guy had completely fallen for the girl and wasn't willing to let her go.
In fact, the relationship between the two of them didn't start long ago. It was just like a joke when it all began after the banquet that Celine had organized in Inchoate city.
The two of them got together somehow, under the confused and suspicious friends of theirs. The reason that the two of them got together wasn't even visible in the first place.
Although it was true that Kelly was a beauty on her own level, Anderson wasn't to be underestimated either. In fact, he was a hedonistic guy, though of a low proportion.
Still, they couldn't understand how the two of them got together and even the two families were not against it. It seemed that two of the big five families in the city were going to have a cooperation that would have been formed from marriage.
Jack and Celine who were seated next to each other at this moment simply smiled as they saw that these five were bantering.
Although their five families would always compete against each other, these five progenies of the five families were in good terms all throughout.
Jack gazed at George who was seated silently while observing the conversation. It didn't seem like he was going to join in anytime soon.
To say the least, he was the most mature amongst the five. As such, he didn't think that it was going to give out a good impression of him in front of the adults if he engaged in the useless banter.
All the same, the youths had definitely completely ignored the adults that were present in the room and chatted casually.
As for the adults on the other hand, they too discussed with each other, albeit in low voices as they observed the juniors laughing around.
They were trying to get to know each other better as they all shared some kind of relationship with Jack.
Back to the group, William looked at Johnathan who had been silent all this while before he questioned, "Jack, is this Johnathan your twin brother?"
Upon hearing the question, all the others stopped making noise as they paid attention. Ever since they had seen Johnathan, they had been wondering about his identity.
All the same, none of them had the courage to ask about the matter until William did.
"Humph! How can I be a twin of this guy? I'm obviously older than him." Johnathan snorted.
"Eh? Is that so? But I thought that your birthday is still one month from now? How can you be older than me? You can only be my little brother." Jack on the other hand replied.
Johnathan was rendered speechless a to how Jack came to know about his birthday. He had always been trying to keep this as a secret from him.
But thinking about it, ever since Jack had informed him that he was about to merge two companies, Kalmond and The Rose, he had to submit all his information as he was going to be a part of the shareholders in the newly formed company.
Since there was nothing that he could say about it, he could only snort and turn his head to the side.
As for the ones that were curious about the relationship between Jack and Johnathan, they were left speechless.
Although it was true that they now had the information that Jack and Johnathan were not twins, then what were they? There was only one month difference between the two of them when it came to age.
So, how could it be possible for them to be brothers? But, if they were not brothers, what was the relationship between the two of them?
Celine, Wendy and Angy had already gotten used to such a situation where Jack and Johnathan would argue about who was superior to the other.
So, Celine spoke up to clear their doubts. "Jack and Johnathan are not twins but cousins. It's just that their mothers are twins. Jack's mother is not here, but as you can see, Johnathan's mother is over there."
As she spoke, she pointed towards Anita. In her eyes, there was a strange glint as she still couldn't get used to the fact that Anne was no longer there.
The two of them had spent a lot of time together when she was young before her memories were sealed off. And after she came to see Anita, she was getting it difficult to adapt to the fact that, the one in front of her was Anita and not Anne.
"Oh, I see." The guys nodded but there was still some doubt in them. Could it be that the twins were married by the same person? Or how else could it be that, twin sisters that were married by different people have children that looked the same?
"Hehe, it is just that the genes of us women are getting stronger by the day. That's the reason why Jack and Johnathan took over the appearance of their mothers instead of their fathers." Wendy chuckled as she spoke.
What she didn't know was the fact that, while the women in the room got proud about themselves, there were a few men that were sulking, especially so for Gregory.
Wendy's words were no different from stating that his genes were weaker than Anita's. As a man, how could he accept that? But, how else was he going to refute that when the truth was there for everyone to see in the form of Johnathan?
In the end, he could only shake his head in slight dejection. But at that time, he felt someone holding his hand below the table. It was Anita. She was looking at him lovingly.
It was obvious what her meaning was. 'Even if you are weak, I still love you the way that you are '
Gregory couldn't help but feel even more depressed. Something like that was supposed to make him happy. But how comes he wasn't feeling comforted at all? In fact, he felt that he had just been punched when he was down.
The small party finally ended when evening was approaching. After that, Celine had already made arrangements on what they were going to do next.
They left the restaurant and headed for another hotel that was booked by Celine. This was currently the best hotel that was present in the country at the moment, Royal Dish Premium Hotel.
Even though it was true that they could have used the Glaze hotel, Celine felt that they were going to compromise the business if they booked the whole hotel.
This was something that she had learnt from the time that she had spent with Jack. To him, it really didn't matter the amount of money that he was going to spend. But, they had to make sure that the income was continuous, no matter how small it was.
Jack nodded his head in appreciation when he realized this. Thanks to the hundred times income multiplier system, every cent was the same as ten dollars.
So, if they had distracted the business of the headquarters on that specific day, wouldn't that have been a massive loss to him?
Furthermore, since he was intending in making sure that his hotel became the best in the country, he might as well utilize this chance to get the information about the hotel that they were visiting at the moment.
Inside the hotel, although they didn't take over all the floors due to the limited number of people, but at least, the number of people here this time was way higher than the one that was in the restaurant.
Celine had organized with Denali and invited all those higher-ups that knew about Jack. This obviously included Tracy, Grace and others that had met with Jack previously.
Celine and Denali knew that Jack was a low profile person. But all the same, there was no way that they were going to have very few people taking over the entire hotel for the evening, right?
So as to make sure that the banquet was going to be enjoyable, they had invited several people that would help them in filling the numbers.
There were even others that were not part of the higher-ups, but simply because they were known to Jack, they were invited over. A good example would be Tim, the one that had been In charge of security at the business overload building.
Since GVSL had been taken over by Jack, this guy had been given a promotion due to his efforts. Jack had never ignored all those that worked hard as long as he noticed them.
Just like that, a small private banquet was held in the best hotel during the night. And although it was true that the hotel was getting a lot of money due to the booking, they were also losing customers to the glaze hotel and other hotels.
This was something that Denali had decided to use. She was the one that had advised Celine to choose this hotel as it was currently their biggest competition.
While the higher-ups of the hotel thought that they were getting easy money, in the long term, they were losing.
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