THE LIE: DECEPTION TO THE CEO

Simultaneously, in SiIsland

Piero and Heli, Lugo’s lawyers, have obtained, through an oversight by Aldair, the list of Dylan’s assets. They have begun to discreetly transfer some properties to third parties to prevent the information from reaching his personal assistant.

With the excuse that nothing can be in Lugo’s name, while the investigations and the trial against him are being carried out, they started this fraud against their client. Every day that passes, they make their new life change very evident to the eyes of others.

Aldair began to suspect that something was not right when he noticed that the two of them changed their cars overnight. Now, they drive highly expensive cars, especially models inaccessible to those who do not belong to the elite billionaires. In view of this, he called Dylan at a private number known only to him.

-Dylan?

-Yes, Aldair! What happened?” he replied, startled.

-How are you feeling? -asked his assistant politely.

-Fine, but I was worried about this call, remember I mentioned to you, only use this number in case of emergency,” he announced.

-Yes I know, boss. I am alarmed,” he indicated, being honest, “Your lawyers, since you left the country, have totally changed their lifestyle, now they live like rich people.

“To top it off, yesterday they arrived at the firm each with a Bentley Flying Spur. You know they are luxury cars, only for billionaires,” Aldair pointed out.

-Those rats! -Dylan cursed angrily, “They sure are squandering my assets. I made the mistake of leaving them a power of disposal and administration, so that they could defend my assets and interests,” said Lugo, cursing them.

-Sir, they wanted to have access to the list of assets that you left available in the safe, but I did not allow them. That was before traveling to Santiago de Leon,” commented Aldair.

Now, I am worried that they have knowledge of the combination of your safe, because I was away for a week resolving other matters,” he said.

-Heli knows it! Because I gave it to him once, so he could look for something he needed and I sent it to the office,” answered Dylan cursing again, “What have you heard about the process? How is the trial against me going?This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org - ©.

-I don’t know anything about that, because every time I call them to find out, they tell me that nothing is definite yet. But, from what I see, I don’t think they are very interested in solving your case,” he informed him.

-Those bastards! -He cursed them again for the umpteenth time. “Quickly hire me a lawyer you trust and have him contact me to revoke the power of attorney I gave them. Enable, pay whatever it is and let the lawyer know what they are doing, such as the process against me.

Immediately, Aldair hung up the call and made some contacts urgently, ending that day with the hiring of a team of lawyers, the best in the region. He gave them a copy of Dylan’s power of attorney and put them in touch with Dylan.

This team quickly began to draft and manage the revocation of Piero and Heli’s power of attorney. Once this was done, they tried to sell Dylan’s other properties, but were surprised to receive information from the registrar that their power of attorney had been revoked.

-What do you mean, revoked? You are wrong, Lugo is not in the country and has not returned to carry out such a legal act,” Heli grumbled, looking at Piero, since they had already received part of the price of the sale and had spent it on partying.

-I’m sorry! Talk to the registrar directly,” ordered the official.

That was how they learned that the power of attorney had been revoked. They, concerned that the part of the initial price given by the client had already been spent, asked the client for time to liquidate some property and return their money.

They went to the company to talk to Aldair to find out exactly what happened. However, following the instructions of his boss, he did not receive them, because he had not received a response from the newly hired lawyers.

Once the lawyers had made their respective investigations, Aldair informed Dylan that he could return without any problem. They had to wait for the file to be processed in order to begin his defense, which apparently will not be difficult.

In this sense, since the interested party in the criminal action had done absolutely nothing, they were confident and asked him to return. However, this strategy was used by Amber’s attorneys to make him return to the country and pay for his crimes.

(***)

Two weeks later, in Santiago de Leon

By the end of August, Lugo returned to Santiago de Leon, to find out about Amber and to carry out what he had planned to do against her. When he visited the law firm of which he was a shareholder, he found out that Nairobi and Mildred no longer belonged to it.

-What, they went independent,” he asked one of his partners.

-Yes, they are working for Amber Tovar’s firm, who apparently has been doing very well, especially since she married the heir of Constructora Morillo,” he said.

-She smiled sarcastically and said goodbye to him, leaving to look for the person she trusted the most, who always does the dirty work for her.

(***)

As September began and Amber was getting ready for her delivery, when she was six months pregnant, she went shopping with her sister-in-law, her mother and her friend Genesis.

While in the most luxurious shopping mall in Santiago de Leon, Dylan Lugo watched her from afar, making sure that someone saw him and identified him. He had made certain changes in his physical appearance so as not to be identified so easily.

When he saw her advanced state of pregnancy, his gaze hardened and he immediately made a call for them to be alert. When they finished shopping, they walked towards the basement, where the chauffeur was waiting for them with the van.

The bodyguard had his hands full because he was the one carrying the packages. He didn’t want to contradict the lady, so that his boss wouldn’t get angry, so he agreed to be the one to take them to the van, while they chatted.

-Mommy, let’s go eat coffee cream cake, which by the way you haven’t made for a long time,” said Amber, talking to her mother.

Yes, let’s go because I don’t want the baby to have traumas later, because he craved for something and didn’t get it,” commented her sister-in-law, laughing and carrying Arantza in her arms.

In a split second, they were surprised, because five men came out from among the other parked cars, all wearing ski masks and armed, trying to subdue the group, including the bodyguard, whom they hit on the head.

They began to scream in fear and panic. They were all surprised, unsuspecting, as they walked from the elevator to the van. However, everything turned in a fraction of a second into scenes of terror and panic…