“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.

didn’t take long until he

on the day it stopped

a snowy day, it wouldn’t have

Garrett told Ethan everything he

theory about who had hired that truck driver. The man had once delivered seafood for clients who lived in high-end gated communities, and the Lester family was on his customer

couldn’t really prove anything. The Lesters could argue that he was just a delivery man and they didn’t even really know

evidence, it’s impossible to link the fire incident to the

clues seemed to lead to

silent. Then he put down the documents he was holding and looked ahead, expressionless. Garrett couldn’t guess what he was thinking. “Elissa has always liked this kind of dirty trick. I have long expected that she would make

so that Elissa wouldn’t feel threatened and just let him be. However, when he was at Nora’s birthday party last time, Elissa must have sensed something about

how you are related to the Larson Group?” Garrett looked dead

childhood, he didn’t know exactly what Elissa

for sure; Elissa won’t stop here. Sadly, we don’t have any conclusive evidence yet.

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