"How did you get this book and from where did you buy it ?", the manager asked me with shocking reaction on his face
" Actually even I am also not sure how it exactly came to me but while I was flying for Brazil I stumbled upon this book which was in my bag and it seemed quite interesting to me so without any further delays I just started reading it, but unfortunately whatever the incidences which are written in this book are coming into life as it is happening to me in reality which is totally baffling me", I told the manager about everything
" Mam I will suggest you to burn this book as early as possible because it's not at all good to keep this book with yourself", manager told me with still shock on his face and fear in his eyes and just started walking out of the shop
" But please just tell me about this book as I really want to know more about this as it's a question of someone's life and death and if you won't help me out then I might lose him", I requested him
"Ok I'll help you out but only till giving you information because I don't wanna fall in this trap once again", he said to me
" Ok that's perfectly alright but please tell me about the book and its history because I really want to know about it", I told him once again
And once again we both went inside his publishing house where he called for some Cold drinks, and we both sat back and now he started telling me the whole story which I even started recording by bringing out my phone and keeping it in the recording mode
" But before I should go ahead can you please tell me how much have you read the book ? ", he questioned me
" I haven't read it a lot as I have just completed around three chapters of this book until now", I told him about the number of pages and chapters I have read from the book till then
" OK then is perfectly alright and without any further delays I would tell you it's information", he told me and then started the story
" It was around 8 years back when I finally decided to open a publishing house as reading and writing has been my hobby since from my childhood but due to my father's strict rules I went into the army and even successfully served for my country for more than 35 years for which I am very much proud of and finally when I got retirement from the army then I decided to fulfill my lifelong dream of building a publishing house for which I selected this place
As it was in the middle of the whole town and very close to the most famous hotel of this town named Dodson Villa, so I thought that my business will be at its peak if I open my publishing house here and as planned I even opened my publishing house but in the very beginning I came to know that to my house is not going to run properly as I didn't have so many books or I would say I didn't have the quality in the books which I was providing to the people and no sooner I just decided to shut down my publishing house within just two months of opening it
but one fine day the whole situation turned upside down as that day it was almost about to rain heavily as the thunderbolts started shuttering among the clouds and even I too decided to go home early as I now people were not coming for buying the books and so putting lock on my shop I started walking but only after few steps I came across a book which was thrown in the dustbin outside my nearby shop which was of hardware
The book was too fascinating to be repulsed, and so I just picked it up from the garbage and took it to my house just to have look at it
And that day I was very much depressed as within just one week I was deciding to shut down my publishing house as it wasn't running properly and in order to get rid of my particular mood I decided to read that book as it looked quite fascinating as well as readable even from its cover with the title my life"
And without any further delays I just started reading that book and no sooner that book turned out to be my favorite as it was book about a simple middle class men with whom everyone can relate to which also showed his problems as well as the ways to come out of the problems
And, so I just decided to print this book for my publishing house as I thought that I should give at least one chance to my publishing house as this book might change my life as I saw a kind of attraction from it which I thought that everyone should witness it
so the very next day after reaching my publishing house I ordered my workers to print the book and for starting I just printed around 100 copies which to my amazement just got sold in 5 days because of which I again decided to print 500 more copies of the same book and that too also got sold out to my surprise within just 15 days from the day of printing but that wasn't enough as soon after the stock out of all the 600 copies
I got call from one of the leading as well as prestigious publishing house of Singapore, and they called me up on for the meeting and there I came to know about the fact that they want to print 1 million copies of this book as its CEO has loved the book, and he wants this book to reach in every nook and corner of the world and hence they offered me to sign contract with them with providing me about 40% of the royalty which I'll be getting from the book when it gets printed and is sold by them
Even I also got happy that this single book just changed my life from hell to heaven within just one month of its publishing, and so I also signed the contract with the company and to company's surprise and amazement the 1 million copies of the book got sold within two months of its printing
And the company started getting more and more order of the book printing because of which the company decided to print amount of 5 million books which also got sold out after five months of its printing date
which made me Millionaire overnight but no sooner me along with the CEO of the company came to know that we have done the biggest mistake of our life when we came to know about the fact that people's across the world has committed suicide after reading the book within very short period of time
So in order to take a look into on the case me along with the CEO of the company personally went to one of the places where the suicide was committed by an 18-year-old boy who read the book and to our amazement when we checked the book we came to know that it's not the book which were printed but it's something else as it wasn't with the title which we printed on the book
Not just a title but even the whole story of the book was totally different and that was also the same case with the other peoples who committed suicide after reading the books which really shocked me as well as CEO of the company as we were really not aware of what was exactly going on and when we finally came to know about the fact we decided to collect all the books back as until then almost 100 peoples committed suicide just after reading the books
And soon after collecting the book we came to know about the fact that the book used to show The Reader its life through it but the most surprising and shocking facts for us was that the book in each and every story was totally different from the other copy and while we investigated we came to know that each book used to represent the life of its readers in the dark way which started affecting their Minds and hence they all come started committing suicide one by one
But one fine day something happened which we weren't expecting when an old woman entered inside the office building and soon inside the office room where I was sitting along with the CEO of the company, and we both were discussing the problem of which is standing right in front of us and possibilities to tackle it
"Burn the books or else she is not going to leave anybody as now she has found out a new way to reach those who are not happy with their life or are depressed by they are living their lives because she feeds on such type of souls which are depressed as well as worried in real life", the old woman warned us
"Who the hell is she and how did she enter here in presence of you all ?, just get the hell out of here or else I am going to kill you", the frustrated CEO shouted on the guards who came following her from back
" What are you talking about ? ", I asked the old woman
" She is cruel, she is beautiful, she is smart, she is intelligent, and she knows how to trap someone because she is none other than the queen of hell, the one and only .....", but before the old lady could complete CEO intervenes," just throw her out of my cabin right now or else I am going to fire you all", ordering his guards
Just burn each and every copy of this book or else ....", But before she could complete her sentence suddenly her voice gets husky and his facial expressions starts changing, and she again continues," I am going to. ", and once again before completing her sentence she ends up hitting wall of the room exploding her mind like a bomb and soon her blood spills all over the room which leaves both of us scared
So not having any other option with just ended up burning each and every copy of the book which were collected across the globe but still even today it is considered that one single copy of the book is roaming and it selects its next Prey by itself and most probably you are the next prey of that book