“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.

take long until he found

happened on the day

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

Ethan

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

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

to link the fire incident

lead to the Lester family, it was not

“Elissa has always liked this

keeping a low profile through the years, so that Elissa wouldn’t feel threatened and just let

found out how you are related to the Larson Group?” Garrett

during childhood, he didn’t know exactly what Elissa could do to the

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

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