“You came to Hanks Residence to collect our debts? Since when did my family owe you money?”
“Will it hurt for you to shut up?!” Sirius turned to shout at Neville.
Having been shouted at, Neville looked at his dad who had a wretched expression on his face and looked like he was about to eat himself alive. Terrified, Neville spoke with a quivering voice, “I’m your son, Dad. Jasper’s an outsider who’s coming to bully us at our house, what’s wrong with me standing up for our family?”
At that moment, the only old man in the room realized that there was something wrong with Sirius and asked with a frown, “What’s going on, Sirius?”
Sirius took a deep breath and looked up at the old man. “This is a notice of breach in contract, Uncle Silas.”
With that, Sirius turned to look at Jasper coldly. “What a trick you’ve got here, hmm?”
Jasper replied calmly, “You’re not so bad either.”
“I’d like to know how you managed to get your hands on so many sales business’ contracts in just two days. How’d you get them to agree to transfer the contract compensation rights to you?” Sirius asked coldly.
At that, the expressions of all the Hanks family members changed.
The Hanks family was currently in a great crisis as their main pillar of income, the electronics orders, had been stolen from them. The sales businesses that they had signed contracts with were rioting every day as well.
As members of the Hanks family, they were well aware that it would be the end of the Hanks family if they could not brave through this.
However, Jasper had now brought those contracts over to collect their debts.
Everyone, including Neville, now looked at Jasper with absolute resentment. They wanted nothing more than to rip Jasper apart.
“Faith County had only developed its electronics market after signing a contract with the Hanks family for a year’s worth of goods. The contract amounts to a total of 1.5 million, with an advanced prepayment of 800,000. The moment either party breaches the contract, they are required to compensate the loss with twice the contract amount. So, I decided to buy that contract with 1.3 million Somer Dollars.
“And the same followed with other sales businesses you signed with. There was no reason for them not to take my offer, especially when they’d have to come up with the expenses themselves to sue you otherwise. There’s no point in dragging debt on forever, correct?”
Sirius paled at Jasper’s words.
Then, he cruelly barked out a laugh. “Wow, very well done, Jasper. Very well done! Aren’t you afraid that I’d go bankrupt and you wouldn’t even get a cent out of me?”
Jasper shrugged and replied calmly, “Even if you went bankrupt, I’m sure the Hanks family’s properties are still worth something. I’ll just have to treat it as picking up the scraps and helping you repay your debts at a discounted price. Even if you’re unwilling, I’m sure the court will agree.
“Plus, let’s be honest, I can afford that bit of cash.”
Sirius glared at Jasper menacingly and was utterly infuriated.
Yet no matter how angry he was, the situation left him no other choice but to surrender.
“Is there truly no way we can negotiate this, Jasper?”
Hearing him, Neville and his brother Dave looked at Sirius with disbelief. They did not understand why their father was surrendering to Jasper.
“Negotiate? My only suggestion is that you repay your debts as soon as possible. That’s 2.7 billion. Ordinary people can live their entire lives on one day of interest alone,” Jasper spoke calmly.
“What? 2.7 billion?!” Neville shrieked.
Dave’s eyes widened in disbelief.
“Dad, he’s obviously just extorting us here! We won’t be able to come up with such a large sum of money in such a short time even if we liquidated all our properties!” Neville explained to Sirius.
Neville was very well aware of the Hanks family’s current situation. They had lost a lot of money ever since the Southface River Project, and the family’s wealth had shrunk greatly.
Over the past few days, they had made losses after losses from taking deals that did not benefit them just to attack Jasper and Dawson. Not to mention that Sylva had also taken an amount of the family’s wealth and vanished!
‘So what if our family has a lot of assets? They’re all side businesses and only a small number of projects are actually profitable! There’s no way we can procure 2.7 billion in such a short time to repay our debts!’
“Then liquidate it!’
Jasper spoke indifferently, “The Hanks family has quite a number of assets. Plus, with all the money each member of the family has, I’d say it’s enough to pay what you owe. Even if it isn’t enough, we can bring it to court. The worst-case scenario? You get blacklisted. But the Hanks family is so formidable that this should be the least of your problems, no?”
