‘At this rate, he would be back to considering the possibility that I am involved with some organization or whatever Jane had planted in that weak brain of his,’ Ethan thought to himself as John rambled on.“If they can really afford that much cash… What if they just needed to see my face? I mean, with the technology these days, you wouldn’t need to follow someone all over the city,” John said.“They could just track my face through the city’s cameras or something. People that can afford that much money would be able to do that right?”Ethan hesitated to answer.He wanted to tell John of how such things would be complicated to do it, and talk about how it was more than just a money thing, but he knew that that was not true.He was not much of a tech guy, but he knew that the city’s cameras could be hacked by a good enough college or even high school hacker.You didn’t need money to do that.Obviously, John didn’t know that, so it would have been a safe lie to tell, but the problem wit

With just that information alone, Jane was back at the top of the list as the prime suspect.The tension that was pooling in Ethan’s mind just now when he thought Alexander Cole had accessed his company’s mainframe slowly burned up into anger the more he thought about Jane.He hadn’t seen the picture, so he couldn’t tell when it had been taken, but he was certain she was the one that took his picture.“It was Jane, wasn’t it?” Ethan asked.“Uh… I honestly don’t know,” John’s response was a bit delayed.“I get the feeling that you do know. You are just not telling me,” Ethan replied, his voice deep and low, like he was dropping secret threats through the deep vibrations of his voice.John must have felt the vibrations because his response sounded like he was under pressure.“I don’t know Ethan,” John pressed.“It was just a picture. Not like it was water marked or anything for me to say I know the type of phone it was from.”“Was it actually not water marked or you just didn’t notice i

“Well… not just a prank, more of a message,” Ethan said. “I mean if you had taken the bribe, gotten caught and then fired, it would be a message to me that they were willing to do anything to ruin me.”“So the death threat bit… It’s not real?” John asked, and Ethan nodded like they were face to face.“Yes, it was not real. They were just trying to make sure you called my attention to things,” Ethan said with a sigh at the end.“But then again, this is just a theory. I might be wrong, who knows.”“You have to be right,” John quickly said and Ethan laughed.John was trying really hard to hope that Jane was not involved right now.“Well, to be honest, whether it is the golf club boys, or it is Jane or someone else I think the only thing that is true is the fact that you are paranoid,” Ethan said.“What?!” John exclaimed, definitely offended.“I really think you are just being paranoid about being a target in all of this,” Ethan continued, ignoring the fact that John was feeling offended

Streetlights streaked into pale lines across Ethan’s windshield as he pushed the car faster, the engine’s growl becoming a constant, living thing beneath his hands. The road ahead was wide but with multiple lanes, and the late night traffic was still stubborn enough to be a problem. His world had narrowed down into motion and geometry. He was suddenly calculating angles, gaps, distances, how much he needed to speed or slow down to overtake without causing any accidents.For the millionth time in the past three weeks, he found himself doing something he didn’t think himself capable of doing.For the first time in his life, at least the parts he could remember clearly, he was in a high speed chase on the highway.The city wasn’t a city in his eyes anymore.It was an obstacle course.The car behind him was matching his speed though, swerving and overtaking on the highway, as cleanly as he was doing as well, if not better.They were hot on his tail, and it looked like they were just inc

Traffic thinned, and Ethan’s driving speed rose with it. He overtook cars aggressively, threading through gaps that shouldn’t have existed. A sedan swerved onto the shoulder to avoid him. Another slammed its brakes, tires smoking as it screeched and swerved to a stop, just missing some pedestrians by inches. The danger of the car chase spread outward now, rippling through everyone unlucky enough to share the road.Ethan noticed, but there was really nothing he could do about it at the moment, so he just dismissed it.Feeling guilty right now was a luxury he couldn’t afford at the moment. If worse came to worse, he could just write a billion dollar cheque to the city to pay for whatever damages were incurred during the chase.Before long, a familiar stretch of road flashed past, and with it came a memory that made Ethan smile, slightly tweaking his original plan.Instead of having the men get caught by Ava and his people at the villa, which could be risky and all, especially if the