“Ethan, am I your all-around-nanny?” Garrett continued whining over the phone. “I only get paid for one person’s worth of labor, but I put in twice as much time.”

“You want a raise? Wait, you don’t need money at all. What you really want is a vacation, don’t you?” How could Ethan not tell what Garrett was thinking? He was like an open book.

Garrett raised his eyebrows and said, “Do you realize how long I’ve been working for you without having a proper vacation? Years!”

“Fine. Once you finished the task I assigned to you, I’ll give you some time off.”

“Now we’re talking,” Garrett replied, obviously pleased with what Ethan said. But he had to be honest; the fire incident was really weird.

“I’ll call you once I find out something.”

*******

For starters, Garrett visited the other residents of the building Ethan lived in and asked around about the truck.

long until he found some

incident happened on the day it stopped

day, it wouldn’t have spread to the rooftop that fast and cause

Ethan everything he

hired that truck driver. The man had once delivered seafood for clients who lived in

that he was just a delivery man and they didn’t

evidence, it’s impossible to link the fire incident to the Lester family.” The case was a little

to lead to the Lester family,

“Elissa has always liked this kind

Ethan had been keeping a low profile through the years, so that Elissa wouldn’t feel threatened and just let him be. However, when he was at Nora’s birthday party last time,

found out how you are related to the Larson Group?” Garrett looked dead serious as

through during childhood, he didn’t know

conclusive evidence yet. And even if we do,

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