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CHAPTER 55“Hey Trent, nice to meet you again,” A familiar male figure said, standing amidst the dark as Trent walked into his room.Trent was startled, it was three weeks ago that he left coral city because of how the cops were on his head, due to his involvement in the death of Marcus Kent and the attempted murder of Jack Bolton. The cops were in search of him, he had a twenty year sentence and no matter how he tried to escape, Jack would always make his life a living hell in coral city, so he had to escape. One time Mr Stefan bribed the cops with fifty million just to let him go, but Jack pressed more charges, he didn’t even have to bribe the cops just to make them arrest Trent, all he did was to say a word, and the cops went after him, he was in total control of Coral city all because of his prestige and charisma, so any of his word went.Jack had acquired the power of Coral city, everyone loved him and because of that Trent had to leave Coral city unnoticed.Jack vowed never to l
CHAPTER 56“What’s the commotion about Lewis?” Stefan said as he rushed out of his office, after hearing people yelling ‘This place must be shut down.’ “Mr Stefan, we have authority from the authority of this company, to shut down all business activities in this business enterprise,’’ An angry looking man growled, after throwing a file down to the standing position of Mr Stefan.“I’m the founder of this place Mister, and I don’t recall asking any of you to shut down my business,” Stefan countered.What was happening in the reception caught the attention of onlookers, who did their job, whispering and gossiping. What exactly did the not so gentleman mean by shut down? Stefan was the rightful owner of Garner's Enterprise, he didn’t pass ownership to anyone apart from his grandson who owned sixty percent shares in the company, but he still oversees the affairs of the company, only because of his old age did he pass that amount of shares to Trent.“Look sir, you have not paid your outsta
CHAPTER 57Lewis returned to the hospital in a frantic state. He had no idea where Trent was or that he was holed up in a small village in Asia. Stefan had a few weeks left in him without that surgery. If the case was different, if the Garners were still wealthy and Stefan was on the brink of death with Trent in hiding, Lewis would be rejoicing, but now he was in despair.He knew Stefan would still have a couple millions of dollars in savings or reserves and with Trent gone, he would be able to inherit it when Stefan recovers, since it was Trent’s actions that put the family in this precarious position.“Where is my father?” Lewis asked in shock when he got to the hospital room and found out that it was empty. His initial thought was that Stefan had already passed away.“Oh,” One of the nurses replied. “He’s already in surgery. I thought you were aware.”Lewis’s eyes popped out of their socket. Who could have paid for his father’s surgery. He had gone to all of their friends and close
CHAPTER 58Lewis soon recovered from his shock. How did Trent manage to pull this off? Perhaps he has underestimated him for so long. At that moment, he thought Trent was truly resourceful.“What do you intend to do to him? He has an army of elite assassins as his personal guards. Like I said, he is invisible.”“What happened to your feet?” Laurel Smith, the first man who has spoken asked, noticing Lewis’ limp and walking cane.Lewis glared at Trent. “This clown smashed my ankle with a hammer as a kid.”“Hmmmm,” Laurel replied. “When I say we are powerful, believe me, I do not just mean physical. Come sit.”He urged Lewis who reluctantly agreed and sat on a couch beside him.Laurel brought out an amulet from his pocket and wrapped it around his arm before he suddenly and firmly grabbed Lewis’s bad ankle with it and he chanted a few words.Lewis screamed out in torture as an agonizing pain shot through his ankle at that instant, but the next second it was gone.Lewis felt like something
CHAPTER 59“It was like magic. Nothing I had ever seen before,” The officer who had witnessed the extraordinary power of Laurel and Gregory Smith reported all that his eyes had seen.Jack, Mildred, Cole and the Inspector General of Police were all present in the Inspector’s office as the officer narrated the events of the previous night.Of course it was hard for them to believe that such mystical powers existed. Being able to pull someone without touching them? Choking out twenty men at once just with the wave of a silly amulet?Nah, that all seemed like fables told to children to scare them. If the officer in question wasn’t one of the best the department had to offer, the Inspector General would have suspended him indefinitely for his incompetence and for cooking up such a tale as his alibi.Only one person in that office saw an iota of truth in the statement of the police officer. He didn’t believe it fully but Jack’s mind went back to a gift he got from his mother when he visited
CHAPTER 60While Jack and the rest were having that meeting with the Inspector general of Police, the Smith Brothers were making their next move.They wanted to send Jack a message, a strong one. They had done their research properly. They knew Jack’s true worth and everything he controlled and they wanted to cripple him severely.As much as Jack had been dealing with his foes, like the Kents, Douglas and even the Garners, he has been steadily expanding his business empire in Coral city.Thanks to the licence he obtained from the Kents, coupled with the resources at his disposal, Jack now controlled eighty percent of the City’s export and import.Since he took over the Garner’s business who were the royalty of real estate in the city and with Blackbolt’s investments in Godswill’s real estate company, Jack now had a stake directly or indirectly in over sixty percent of the city’s commercial and residential real estate.Thanks to Raymond Douglas, the whopping amount of shares Jack acquir
CHAPTER 61The smell of septic that wafted into Jack’s nose as he regained consciousness made him realise where he was even before her he opened his eyes.A hospital. He was in a Hospital. How? He was just in that building. Cole was yelling ‘bomb’. Cole….Where is Cole?Jack’s eyes snapped open and Mildred, who had been observing him, gasped.“Thank goodness. You’re awake, I was so scared,” she said frantically and her eyes were red, showing that she had been crying.“What happened? Where’s Cole?” Jack asked, trying to lift himself into a sitting position but a crippling pain shot through his back and legs and he winced, staying back on the bed.Mildred began to cry at his question and Jack feared the worst, growing impatient.“Talk to me Mildred! What happened?” “Cole is gone,” Mildred said weakly and a whimper escaped her. “His body was blown to pieces when the building exploded and the building, all the money and effort we’ve put into it, it’s all gone.”Jack closed his eyes in pain
CHAPTER 62“Welcome back home Boss,” Rojo greeted Jack when he finally returned home the next day.Rojo still had deep connections in the city from his time being Raymond’s Douglas’ right hand man and he had done some snooping around and gotten some information.“Mildred said you have some information for me,” Jack replied sternly. It wasn’t a time for pleasantries for him. He had been in a sour mood since he woke up yesterday and he was itching to pay back the wrong that had been done to him.“Nothing concrete but I feel the Garners are behind this recent attack.”“Impossible,” Jack replied. The Garners have lost their wealth, power and prestige. There’s no way they could have pulled that off.“It’s possible, boss. If you remember, the cops mentioned that they saw Trent with Lewis and some other men that they couldn’t recognize. Two of them have some sort of mystical power. I also found out that a day before that, their father’s surgery had been paid for and he was flown out of the c