“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

incident happened on the day it stopped snowing in

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

told Ethan everything he

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

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

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

seemed to lead to

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 make a move since the day we came back from Grandma’s birthday

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

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

he didn’t know exactly what

so. But one thing is for sure; Elissa won’t stop here. Sadly, we don’t have any conclusive evidence yet. And even if we do, it will

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