“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 some

on the day it

coincidence? If the fire broke out during a snowy day, it wouldn’t have

Ethan everything he found

who had hired that truck driver. The man had once delivered seafood for

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

it’s impossible to link the fire incident to

seemed to lead to the

guess what he was thinking. “Elissa has always liked this kind of

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. However, when he was at Nora’s birthday party last time, Elissa must have

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

during childhood, he

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 be hard to put Elissa behind bars because of the

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