“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 some

incident happened on the day it

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

told Ethan everything he

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

could argue that he was just a

fire incident to the Lester

to lead to the Lester family, it was

he was thinking. “Elissa has always liked this kind of dirty trick.

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, Elissa must have

think Elissa is behind this? Do you think they have found out how you are related to the Larson Group?”

he didn’t know exactly what Elissa could do to

sure; Elissa won’t stop here. Sadly, we don’t have any conclusive evidence yet. And even if we do, it will be hard to put Elissa behind bars

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