The Mighty Dragon Warrior

Chapter 28

Jacob chuckled from the garden as he watched his father try to justify his reasoning.

“It’s just a bottle of wine. It’ll probably cost maybe three hundred max!” Suzie retorted as she stared at the lone figure standing in the garden.

“Hah! Three hundred?!” Franklin barked. “Suzie, you’re way off! You can’t even buy the bottle for a hundred!”

“How much is it then?” Suzie glared at him.

Franklin immediately reigned himself in. He shook his head and replied honestly, “I don’t know.”

Before his wife got angry, he quickly added, “But if I remember correctly. They auctioned off a bottle from 1905 a couple of years ago for at least ten thousand.”

“Ten thousand?!” Suzie’s eyes were about to pop out of her head. “It’s just a bottle of wine! It’ll be gone once you drink it. Is it really that expensive?”

“And that is just five years after this one!” Franklin happily stared at the wine in his hand. “This Lafite was cellared for five more years than that one. I’m sure the price will double if we ever decide to auction it!”

so loving. He still remembers what I like! But such an

he spent these six years away

1900 will double that? So, twenty thousand?” Suzie

sell a bottle of wine for ten thousand?!”

men rolled their eyes simultaneously at

was Franklin who had a deeper understanding with women. With one sentence, he ended the discussion.

bantering, the estrangement caused by the six years he had

reached the dining room to see the table full of delicious looking dishes.

Your uncle.” Franklin looked

when did he have

to question further, there was a loud noise from the garden. Janelle came bounding in,

way before Jacob. She grinned at him

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