“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.

until he found

fire incident happened on the

the fire broke out during a snowy day, it wouldn’t have spread to the rooftop that fast and cause injury to

Ethan everything he

hired that truck driver. The man had once delivered seafood for

Lesters could argue that he was just a delivery man and they

impossible to link the fire incident to the Lester family.” The case

to lead to the Lester family, it was not

has always liked this kind of dirty trick. I have long expected that she would make a move since the day we came back from

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, Elissa must have sensed something about him had changed and she

you think they have found out how you are related to the

no idea what Ethan had been through during childhood, he

evidence yet. And even if we do, it will be hard to put Elissa behind bars because of the Lester family’s

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