“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

the day it stopped snowing in

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

Ethan everything he

delivered seafood for clients who

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

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

the clues seemed to lead to the Lester

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

since she first knew his existence. Ethan had been keeping a low profile through the years, so that Elissa wouldn’t feel threatened and just let him be.

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

no idea what Ethan had been through during childhood, he didn’t know exactly

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

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