The Lord Mayor Falls in Love with Me

Chapter 42 A mountainous village of giant salamanders

Joey was shocked to hear the news.

She had lied to her parents yesterday that she had gone on a business trip to another city to discuss

about a development program. The lie became reality today.

It seemed that the lie had gotten back at itself.

John Walter frowned at her lack of response. He went over to her and said, “Don’t you want your job

after you hooked up with Mayor Allen Charles? Let me give you a word of advice. A woman who

depends on her man will always come to a bad end.”

Joey wasn’t happy to hear that, “Who says I will depend on a man? Don’t look down on a girl. I’m going

with you. It’s my work after all. I will never make up excuses to evade what I should do. Mr. Walter, after

you then.”

There was no denying that she was less competent in some aspects, but she had always been an

independent young woman. She knew Allen was the mayor and he was wealthy and privileged. But

she had never intended to depend on him in any way because she had her own dreams and

aspirations.

John Walter put on a vague smile before he turned around to walk toward the door.

Sarah, who had followed John Walter all the way, froze when he asked Joey to come along with him.

He had just rejected Milla and Nana (both were his personal secretaries) even if they begged him to

take them on the road in tears. But now he offered to bring Joey along.

Joey didn’t notice John Walter’s fleeting strange when he left, but Sarah did.

Sarah’s heart sunk.

John Walter had decided to bring Joey and Sarah as his secretaries and four fully- armed bodyguards

on this trip.

After they got in the car driven by a professional driver, John Walter sat alone in the passenger seat in

the front row. Joey and Sarah sat in the back seats. The bodyguards were in the other car which

followed the president’s car.

When the car was started, Sarah briefed Joey on the development program.

They were headed to a mountainous area in the neighboring city where there was a small

underdeveloped village called Village of Giant Galamanders. John Walter planned to acquire the village

and its surrounding thickly forested mountains within a radius of one hundred miles at a high price.

Why would he do that?

The story started with the name of the village, the Village of Giant Galamanders.

It was called the Village of Giant Galamanders because it was a place with particularly favorable

conditions for the breeding of giant salamanders. The pools were shady and cool. It was said that the

survival rate of giant salamanders was as high as 90%.

The amazing survival rate had gone beyond the capability of national experts.

Giant salamanders were national protected animals, but the second-generation giant salamanders

were allowed to be bred and put up for sale. A grown giant salamander was worth thousands of dollars.

It was a very profitable business.

In his pursuit of high profits, John Walter had decided to try a new line of work and even go on a field

trip.

“How long will it be?” Joey wondered.

“Three days at least and one week at most.” Sarah’s answer was short.

Sarah couldn’t get the way John Walter had looked at Joey and his smile out her head. She knew how

excellent Joey was more than anyone else. She wasn’t surprised to find that he wanted Joey. However,

the very thought of another woman being involved in their relationship was annoying, even if Joey was

her best friend who had no intention to do so.

“It’s so long. But I’ve prepared nothing.”

Joey was worried. She had stayed at Sarah’s home last night and had to put on Sarah’s clothes this

morning. She was wearing Sarah’s suit now, let alone a change of clothes.

“That’s all right. There are daily necessities in the trunk.” Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

It was John Walter in the front seat answering her question.

Joey bit her lips. It was an order from the president. What else could she say? She borrowed Sarah’s

phone (her phone had been shattered by Ben Hawk) to call her parents. With the lie she had told them

yesterday, she easily got their approval, especially her father who kept telling her to take good care of

herself despite of work.

After she hung up the phone, she intended to call Allen to tell him that she would be away for three to

seven days. She was afraid that he would freak out if he couldn’t reach her in the few next days.

What she hadn’t expected was that John Walter, who assumed that she would call Allen next, suddenly

turned around and took the phone rudely. He looked sideways at Joey, “Don’t think that you are not at

work today when you aren’t in the office. It’s work time and you made calls nonstop in front of me. Are

you really focused on your work?”