Chapter 30: Shares in a Jewellery Company

Jerome subconsciously shivered when he saw Allen appear. He could already see Allen's angry eyes.

"Hey man, couldn't you have waited a little longer for me to open the door? That girl hasn't even been in here for ten minutes yet, and for an outsider to see, she'd think I'm incapable." Jerome spat and poured a drink.

Jerome realized that Allen was still looking at him with icy eyes. He waved his hand awkwardly, "Sorry, man. You know, I can't go out on the street in just a pair of underwear in that situation, and anyway, you're passed out, so even if someone else took a picture, you wouldn't be able to see it."

"You asshole!" Allen angrily rushed over to strangle the asshole.

"Dude, just calm down for a second. Look at what this is!" Jerome hurriedly took a document from the table and handed it to Allen.

Allen moved his hand away from Jerome's neck, took the paper, and read it.

"A share transfer agreement? Yakadi Jewelry Company?" Allen looked at Jerome suspiciously. If he remembered correctly, this share transfer agreement was still the one he helped Jerome win back.

Jerome rubbed his reddened neck and said, "This is a thank-you gift for saving me again. From now on, you are the second largest shareholder of this jewelry company."

Allen looked at Jerome in shock. All he had to do was sign it and go from poor boy to rich man instantly.

"How can you be so generous?" Allen asked Jerome in disbelief. He could guess that Jerome would send him a thank-you gift, but this gift was too expensive.

Jerome shrugged, "You can think of it as an investment and a way for me to make it up to you. That Henry guy wouldn't have targeted you if it weren't for me."

Allen froze momentarily, "You know Henry did all this?"

Jerome sneered as he took a sip of his wine, "I could have guessed that with my ass, after all, the Flowering Serpent is one of the dogs of Taber's father and son."

"They are targeting you. Don't you want to take them out?" Allen asked.

Jerome shook his head, "Of course we’d like to, but we can’t. Allen, for Rock City, my father and I are considered outsiders. Just getting a foothold here has been tough enough. When it comes to certain shady dealings, we don’t have the same advantages as the Tabers."

"To put it bluntly, isn't it just a case of not having any mob hitmen or killers willing to die for you?" Allen bristled and signed the document with a pen.

It would be wise to take the favors delivered to your door.

Jerome saw Allen signing and poured him a glass of wine to clink glasses.

"There would be plenty of outlaws willing to take out Taber and his son if they were willing to pay for it, but my father disagreed, and he was a man who valued life above all else." Jerome shrugged.

"Even if we can't take out the other guy, we've got to get us out of the way, right?" Allen asked, looking at Jerome.

Jerome had a bitchy grin on his face, "Man, I've been waiting for you to say that, want to come with me to a good show?"

Allen raised an eyebrow and didn't say no.

An hour later, Henry arrived at a hotel with his newly hooked-up model, whom he straddled up the stairs, not noticing the two guys he'd been trying to take out following behind him.

Ten minutes later, two guys dressed as hotel waiters came downstairs pushing a large suitcase. Not long after they left, a model wrapped in a bath towel panicked downstairs to call the police.

A seedy, remote old part of Rock City, it's near the outskirts and is home to many poor people.

Allen carried the unconscious Henry up the crumbling stairs, opened the door to a room, and threw Henry onto the dirty bed.

Jerome took a glass of water and forced it down Henry's throat.

"I'll leave the rest to you, Maria," Jerome said to a woman in the room.

Allen wasn't quite sure if 'Maria' was a woman or not; from a distance, she should look like a woman, but if you got close, you could see the other woman's fat body, the stubble on her chin, the armpit hair under her arms, and the pungent odor of fox.

Maria took a drag on her cigarette and gruffly replied, "I'll let him enjoy being a man! Of course, you guys can stay, and we'll have a 4P together. I can take it!"

Jerome winced and waved his hand back and forth, "No, just leave him alone, and don't forget to take more pictures."

Jerome finished and left quickly with Allen.

When the door to the room closed, Allen inquired in an odd tone, "Is this what you came up with?"

Jerome nodded, "Tomorrow, Henry's racy photos will be on the front page of every newspaper. What do you think of that punishment?"

"I don't suppose he'll cooperate obediently when he wakes up?" Allen asked in surprise.

Jerome shrugged, lit a cigarette, and smoked it. "Remember the water I gave him to drink? It had an aphrodisiac in it that I bought from an animal conservationist who used it a lot to breed endangered animals, and I've heard him say it works great. The mammoths have to be resurrected to get a couple of shots."

The corner of Allen's mouth tugged, but he heard Maria's rough howl from the room.

"Oh ...... baby ...... that's crazy ...... lighter ...... too hard ......"