All Chapters of In Love With A Twin Faced CEO : Chapter 31 - Chapter 33

Claire's POVI stood there and waited for Maria to say something but nothing came out of her mouth. She just stood in one spot like someone had glued her feet to the ground and her eyes kept blinking over and over again while she stared at her phone screen."Maria, what's going on? Say something!" Lucius grabbed her arm and pulled her toward him.Maria shook her head like she was waking up from a trance and took in a long breath before she spoke. "Sorry for that. I got overwhelmed for a second there. Ivy just texted me that she managed to escape after she lured him to bed."My brain stopped working for a second. Did she just say Ivy lured Desmond to bed? That could not be the same Desmond Baggins I knew. The monster I knew did not wait for women to lure him anywhere. He forced himself on girls and most of them were younger than him. He would handcuff them to the bed and do whatever sick things came into his head and they could not do anything to stop him. So how was it possible that I

Claire's POVThe gunshot rang out and the sound hammered into my skull. Everything went dark in an instant and the blackness pressed against my eyes like a heavy cloth.I stood frozen with my hand pressed to my forehead. I blinked hard and tried to force my eyes to adjust but nothing worked. The darkness was complete."What's going on here?"My voice bounced off the walls and came back to me.I moved forward with slow steps and stretched my arms out in front of me. My fingers grasped at empty air. I walked like this for what felt like forever and swept my hands back and forth across the space. Nothing. No one. Just air and darkness.My chest tightened and the fear turned into anger."Where the hell is Maria and Lucius?"I called out. My voice cracked at the edges."Who the hell is doing this? What kind of game is this?"I turned in a circle and shouted louder."Maria! Lucius! Where the fuck did you go?"Silence swallowed my words. Then a voice called back from somewhere far away."