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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
CHAPTER 63“Grab him,” Rojo ordered immediately. The two guards who had escorted him in as a guest, swiftly grabbed him like a prisoner but Lewis only laughed.“I came here on my own accord and you want to arrest me? Is that anyway to treat a guest?” He said in a mocking tone.“You’re no guest of mine Lewis Garner. Lock him up! I’ll be down to get some answers from him,” Jack said coldly.“Jack, Jack, Jack. Always showing off some mean bravado. You may want to check under my shirt first….I’m sure you don’t want another explosion. Oh and I’m sorry about your boy Co—”POW!A swift and strong punch from Rojo sent the rest of Lewis’ words down his throat while sending three of his teeth flying out of his mouth.“Hahaha!” Lewis laughed hysterically from his bloodstained mouth. “Your time is up Jack and there’s nothing you can do about it.”“There’s a bomb under my shirt and it’s going to go off in five minutes if you don’t let me go. Hahaha!” Lewis boasted like a power drunk maniac.“Check
CHAPTER 64After giving that order to Rojo, Jack picked up the card and walked out of the room. Dialling the number, he got the time and address to visit from the answering machine.Two days later, Jack and Eagle made their way to the address. It was a mega mansion that had for long been desolate but had been recently renovated. Jack had passed through this particular building several times in the past but what he did not know was that it was the Smith family compound.A few metres away from the compound, Jack ordered Eagle to stop the car.“We’re not there yet boss, why do you want me to stop?” Eagle questioned, slamming the brakes and pulling to the side of the road.“I’m going in alone,” Jack replied coldly.“What? No way I’m letting you do that. Those fuckers are dangerous. Heard they on some voodoo shit too. No freaking way,” Eagle countered.“They can’t harm me but you they can. It’s too fucking dangerous. Besides their request was that I come alone.”Eagle chuckled wryly. “Dange