All Chapters of The Lost Heir: The Rise Of Ethan Walker : Chapter 91
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The men in black
The gates of the facility rolled open with a mechanical groan, and a sleek black car slid through like a shadow slipping beneath a door. The guards posted at the gate watched it with a touch of unease as the gravel crunched under its rolling wheels.“Have you ever seen this one around?” one of the two guards at the gate said, without looking at his shorter colleague.“No,” the shorter man shook his head.The duo watched on for a while before settling back down, shrugging away the feeling they had.“You think we should call it in? It might be headquarters coming in for some surprise visit again,” the first man said, but the shorter man disagreed after thinking for a little bit.“Headquarters always use company customized plates for official visits. That one had no plates,” he said and picked up a magazine to distract himself.“It's probably a kid of one of the managers.”The other guard still felt uneasy, but he was the subordinate here, it wasn’t his call to make, so he just let it g
Shots fired
The three men exchanged looks for a moment before all turning to face the receptionist at the same time, making him shift back subconsciously.“Look, all we are asking for here is a yes or no,” the man in the middle spoke again.“Does a man named Ethan work here? Yes, or no?”“I told you already, ‘I’ do not know anyone with that first name working here,” the receptionist insisted, emphasizing on the ‘I’.It was a smart choice, because if it turned out that the men were from Nexus Headquarters or even from the government or something like that, then he wouldn’t be charged with being an obstruction to justice or any charges of that kind.If he was taken to court, he could easily argue that he had strictly said that he didn’t know anyone of that name, he never claimed that such a person didn’t work for Nexus Air, Brighton.He patted himself on the back in his head for the smart choice he had made and then focused back on the men in front of him.“You see…” the man on the left spoke this
Help your memory
The receptionist behind the desk almost ducked from the fear of it being a gun, but he managed to suppress his fears, but he was already sweating so much it would be obvious to even a child that he was terrified.The man on the left pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and half-slammed it on the desk.The man in the middle dropped his sunglasses on the counter and pushed the paper towards the sweating receptionist.“I believe we started on the wrong foot here, allow us to try again,” he said. His voice was still generally devoid of emotion, but his voice was a little lower, it was almost like he was being apologetic.“Forgive the mention of your family. That was obviously a mistake on our part. But… please, we would appreciate a little cooperation from you,” he said, tapping on the piece of paper.The receptionist, John, took a peak at the piece of paper, and it was a picture.It was a crisp, high-quality image of Ethan, taken in the building. The background looked familiar, b
Yes or No
The receptionist recoiled the moment he saw the wad of cash on the table. He looked at the men, then back at the cash, his lips trembling from temptation.“Um… What… What is this?” John swallowed hard, pretending not to understand what was happening.The man in the middle just stared at him, not saying a single word to him.“L… Look… I need you to exit the building right now before I call security,” John challenged, struggling to keep his eyes off of the cash.“You would have done that already if you really wanted to call security on us,” the man said, totally unmoved by John’s threat.“Besides, something tells me that you know your security guards won’t be able to make us leave if we don’t want to,” he added confidently.John swallowed hard again, his eyes still falling to the wad of cash on the table.It was a bundle of hundred dollar bills.His head had already done the math. Unless they had just put hundred dollar bills at the top of the bundle, then sitting on his desk was a hu
Waste of time
They were willing to pay him ten million dollars just for the confirmation that Ethan worked there. That was the most crucial part of their job. Once they confirmed he worked at the facility, killing him would become easy, but they needed that confirmation, but John was not cooperating. “Look,” the balding receptionist pushed the money back to them. “Stop wasting all our time with all this nonsense back and forth. I’m not touching that money okay? And you need to leave.” Their eyes hardened. For a moment, it felt as if the room tightened. It was probably only happening in his head, but John could hear the lights buzzing louder. He had never seen that much money in his life before at a single time, and they looked like they could offer him more. At first his greed started boiling so much he was starting to wish he could find a way to signal to them to meet him after work, outside the reach of the cameras watching him, so he could tell them everything. But then they incre
False suspect
She had spent a few months trying to get some dirt on him, so she could make her way into his company.She couldn’t believe she had forgotten about that night so much.‘Just how much did I drink?’ she thought to herself as the memories flooded her mind.She remembered him coming to her and flirting a bit, even promising to take care of whomever was ruining her mood.She knew he was just trying to get in between her legs, but she had let it go on.Even though she was already wasted, her subconscious thoughts drove her to play along because if he slept with her, she could use that to get closer to him, and if he killed Ethan, she could use it as dirt on him to blackmail him.She was such a menace, she could cook up elaborate schemes even while she was quite literally unconscious.She remembered showing him Ethan’s picture and then his mood changed.She remembered the look on his face even though it was a bit blurry in her mind, but he looked shocked… astounded, like he had just taken a
Am I permitted?
“What?” Jane looked at John with confusion and shock.“Are you daft or something?” she frowned at him“Well, you can’t blame me for asking. It won’t be the first time you did something like that,” John didn’t hold back with his accusations.Jane couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She wasn’t appalled by his accusations. If she was the one behind it, she wouldn’t have denied it, even though she wouldn’t have confirmed it either.But she was disgusted and honestly disappointed by his question.“You are stupid John. How much money do I have to be able to afford people like that? People that can pay… seven hundred grand for answers.”John recoiled, realizing how stupid his accusations actually sounded.“Besides, if I had sent them to do anything to Ethan, do you think they would have come here asking if he worked here? Wouldn’t I have already told them that?”John went silent for a moment, unable to find a sensible answer to her question.“Well… who knows, it could be a smart way to t
Danger
Ethan noticed the look John gave Jane and when John didn’t say anything, he furrowed his brows and turned to face her“Jane,” he said with all authority. “What’s going on?”Jane straightened immediately, forcing a dismissive scoff that didn’t quite land.“What are you talking to me for?” she said, trying to appear aloof, like she wasn’t interested in whatever was going on.“I know something is going on here Jane. I can see the way John is looking at you,” Ethan didn’t look away.“Nothing is going on, okay?” she said. “You’re imagining things.”Her voice was steady, but her eyes were not.She just kept avoiding looking directly at him, and it was terribly obvious.‘She’s scared,’ Ethan realized, surprised by the clarity of the thought.‘Was I really that scary when I took my keys from her last night? Wait… Did she tell John what happened last night? Is that why he is behaving this way all of a sudden?’His thoughts danced about for a bit, but he couldn’t settle on a single answer.All
Mr loner
The thought crept into Ethan’s head before he could stop it.‘Did she figure out who I am?’‘I mean it is totally possible that she might have done some digging after yesterday and realized who I really am.’‘But how would she even figure that out? No one really knows who I am, even while I am not pretending. So how could she have found out?’If his thoughts could stroke his chin, that was what they would have been doing while he quickly ran through all the possible ways she could have found out.She might have followed him home, because he wasn’t especially attentive to his environment while driving home that day. He was too pissed by her to have wanted to pay attention.Plus, even if she followed him home, there would have been no direct correlation between him and the CEO of the Nexus Global Group just based on where he lived.It’s not like the house had a flag that said “Property of the CEO of the Nexus Global Group”.He almost laughed internally.She definitely couldn’t have figu
Prime suspect
The silence that followed John’s words was thick enough to sit on.Ethan didn’t move, no one did.After John had said he thought the men wanted to kill Ethan, both sides of the reception desk went silent.Ethan went silent, trying to reconfigure his thoughts from his fears of exposure, to one of danger, while Jane and John went silent, trying to watch for Ethan’s reaction.John and Jane were not on the same page over what was happening. John was still a bit suspicious of Jane.He suspected that she had hired those men to take out Ethan, but they both had one common interest.Ethan.They both were starting to have questions for Nexus Air’s newest employees. Who was he in truth?John had worked at the facility for years now, and in his time at the front desk, he had seen a lot of things happen.He had seen women coming around to ask if certain people worked at the facility, either because they had been lied to by some random fellow to get them in their bed, or the person really did work