Chapter 52 Authors POV… {third person narration} The mayor picked up the phone with trembling hands. “Hello!” “Hello, it is me!” Lucien's voice was heard through the phone and the mayor thought for a moment that he misheard. He looked at the caller ID and saw that it was Camilla, but why was the voice speaking Lucien's? Could it be that… “You are alive?” the mayor questioned in a shaking voice. “Should I be dead?” Lucien asked, not understanding why the mayor was agitated but something clicked in his mind. Since the rescue team went back without their bodies, then they were literally dead. “I did not want to make a statement at first because I did not believe that you were dead. But people were just too impatient and they could not wait to announce it to the whole world. They are literally forcing me to give up the office!” the mayor said angrily over the phone. “I am not dead and no one is either. We are all safe. We just evacuated to the nearby village because our mission

Chapter 54Mayor POV…“When Lenox Crawford was making his statement, I haven’t even gotten the report from the rescue team that I had sent. I was also shocked, just like everyone else when I heard the news from him!”“I wonder how he managed to get such information and he was sure that something had happened in city Y.” I spoke. They thought that they were smart and they were the only ones who knew how to spin lies, right?I will let them have a taste of their own medicine. They want to force me to leave office? But until Lucien took over, I am not going to step my foot out of this place.“He went ahead to release false news that he knew nothing about, causing pain and grief among people and you want that kind of person to be mayor? Do you not have any confidence in my successor? I have served this city with all my heart for the last eight years, how can I endorse someone that is incompetent, won’t I be ruining my reputation if I do that?”“I can assure all of you that Lucien Hart an

Chapter 56Lenox POV…The shareholders held an emergency meeting and I had no choice but to attend. I have no idea what I am going to tell them but I was not going to give up on my CEO position.I did not know that one moment of greed for power will compromise everything that I have worked so hard for.“Lenox, what is the meaning of this?” Robin was one of the oldest shareholders in the company and he asked angrily throwing a stack of documents at me. although I was angry and displeased, I knew that I was in the wrong thus I maintained a calm expression.“Our company is on the verge of being swallowed by the mysterious force and our shares are dropping drastically. We are almost reaching the lowest market price to be ever experienced in the history of stock market.” He continued.“What the hell have you don Lenox? Didn’t I warn to be careful, now you have really outdone yourself this time. What are going to do?”“Everyone, things are not as bad as they look. we will get through this.

Chapter 58Camilla POV…‘So, everything is clear to everyone! I am sorry that I was misguided and I brought panic and grief to the public. I did not know that I was a chess piece in someone’s game, just like the rest of you! I am here to offer my deepest apology to anyone that might have been affected by the news!’This statement repeated itself in my mind over and over again. I could not understand why Lenox is so adamant on going against Lucien. Did he really want to be the mayor for the benefit of the people, or was he actually someone's chess piece?My face was expression less as I thought about this. No one knows this, but I understand Lenox more than anyone in this world. After all, I have once been smitten with him and I knew everything about him like the back of my hand.Although he is slightly smarter than average, there is no way he can come up with something like that! I am one hundred and one percent sure that someone is manipulating him behind the scenes, and that someone

Chapter 60Camilla POV…The blind fold and the ropes around me were untied and I was finally free.My eyes were already used to the darkness from the blindfold so they hurt a little due to coming in contact with the sudden brightness. I realized that I was sitting on a chair in the middle of a glaring light.I looked around and only realized that the place where I was, was the only place that had lights. It was so bright that my eyes throbbed when I tried to even open them a little bigger.The rest of the room was plunged into darkness and I could not even see the man who has been speaking just a moment ago. I did not dare open my eyes anymore because I felt that my skull was being spilt apart.My heart was nervous and I finally started to panic. Why is that every time I want to help Lucien, something bad must happen to me? and how did this people make it so natural that I did not suspect anything.Fuck it! Lenox. He must be in cahoots with them! was his phone call to ask me out done