“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

fire incident happened on the day it stopped snowing

the fire broke out during a snowy day, it wouldn’t have spread

Ethan everything he

once delivered seafood for

still, it couldn’t really prove anything. The Lesters could argue that he was just a delivery

link the fire incident to the Lester family.”

lead to the Lester family, it was not

a moment, Ethan fell 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

the years, so that Elissa wouldn’t feel threatened and

out how you are related to the Larson

Ethan had been through during childhood, he didn’t

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

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