He’s the one who doesn’t smile in group photos. He makes faces instead.
The one who fixed your phone in five minutes… and probably hacked your camera while doing it.
Sarcastic. Brilliant. Unapologetically blunt.
David Jones isn’t the loudest voice in the room—but he’s always listening. And chances are, he’s already solved the problem you didn’t know you had.
🎓 Built by Code. Bonded by Loyalty.
David graduated from MIT with multiple degrees and a mind that didn’t stop moving. He was on track to dominate Silicon Valley—already working for a major tech firm when Nick offered something different: a chance to build something real. From the ground up. With people he trusted. His brothers.
So when Nick started the company that would become Ivory Tower Corp, David walked away from the valley and joined him as CTO. He’s been architecting everything from the security protocols to the elevator logic ever since.
If it runs on electricity, David owns it.
(And if it doesn’t… he’s probably working on a way to make it smarter. He programmed the coffee maker to talk back. Sarcastically, of course.)
🥋 The Fighter in the Code
But beneath the dry wit and genius IQ, David has scars. The kind that don’t always show.
When Nick and Zach met him in high school, he was the quiet kid who got shoved into lockers, cornered in hallways, and told to keep his head down. He didn’t fight back—not because he couldn’t, but because no one had ever taught him how.
Nick and Zach changed that.
They dragged him—reluctantly—into a martial arts studio. He still practices to this day.
“David?” Zach once said, arms crossed. “If you ever stop training, I’ll take it personally.”
David just rolled his eyes. “And I’ll hack your Netflix account. We all have weapons.”
That’s the thing about David. He doesn’t like violence. But if you hurt someone he cares about?
He won’t hit you.
He’ll erase you.
💻 Firewalls Around the Heart
David’s role at Ivory Tower goes far beyond technology. He’s the one who watches. Who analyzes. Who balances Nick’s ambition and Zach’s instinct with logic and dry humor.
And when Lena Harris enters his carefully coded world…
Everything glitches.
Because Lena doesn’t scare easily. She doesn’t flinch when David fumbles words or forgets how to speak in anything but numbers and sarcasm. She challenges him, confuses him—and somehow, calms him.
Which is exactly what makes her dangerous.
“She made him forget the code. That was the problem.
With her, there was no logic. No firewall. Just feeling.
And David had no idea what to do with that.”
Next time, we’ll turn the spotlight on Zach Steele—the protector who says the least but sees the most.
And if you thought Nick and David were intense… just wait.
Which of the three do you trust the most so far? Or better yet—who would you want watching your back?
Drop a comment below.
Just know: David’s already tracking them. Electronically. Maybe emotionally. Probably not both.
—Jena
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