All Chapters of The Lost Heir: The Rise Of Ethan Walker : Chapter 121
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Demolishing thoughts
‘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
prime suspect
Prime SuspectJohn went quiet, probably trying to find some flaw to what Ethan had said, but it made sense.Since John was more convinced that Jane was not behind it and that it was someone else, then the only way this “someone else” would be able to access Ethan would be through the cameras.But like Ethan said, they would not have bribed him if they really did have as much data access as he was thinking.He took a few more seconds before his brain finally found a flaw to work with.“Wait a minute,” John’s voice came through the speakers of Ethan’s phone, and the relief that was settling on Ethan’s face vanished.“You said they could afford the city cameras and run a facial recognition program on it if they had my pictures right?” “Yes,” Ethan nodded, trying to figure out what angle John was coming from before the question landed, but he was not getting anything.He was expecting a quick question following his response, but John went oddly quiet.“John? Are you there?” Ethan asked.
Not a single bad bone
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
it was a prank
Ethan was so shocked by the confidence in John’s voice for a split second, but it didn’t last, the shock.“I don’t know you much, but I don’t believe that you are capable of…”John interrupted. “What if this was just pretense?”“What if I was looking to make you comfortable enough to follow some random location to kill you?”“Or maybe more than that, maybe I am just driving you to some location I had been told to bring you to, so they can kill themselves, who knows?”“I know you are not like that,” Ethan replied simply.“Well, I would really appreciate it if you could think of Jane the same way, okay?” John said almost immediately.Ethan went silent for a moment. He could hear John’s voice, the man was really trying his best to forgive Jane, so Ethan decided to drop the case.Jane would continue to be the biggest suspect, but for the sake of John’s sanity, he was going to drop the matter. Or at least stop pointing fingers at Jane to John’s hearing.“I am sorry,” John said after over
Arriving home
“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
No more hiding
Without John’s nagging voice filling the car, the night rushed back in.Ethan could hear the low thrum of the engine, the whisper of his tires on the asphalt, and the faint rattle of something loose somewhere in the car.His mind was too strained to pinpoint where it was coming from, so he just made a mental note to tell Ava to have the car checked for problems. He didn’t really know the street, but all streets lead back to the highway, and he could hear the sound of the busy highway a distance away, so he just kept driving towards the sound of the highway from which he was planning to be able to reroute himself to his house.‘Ava is not going to be happy with how late I am coming home today,’ Ethan noted to himself in his thoughts.Now his thoughts had room to breathe.With John’s words no longer in his ears all the time, he was capable of thinking now, but he was still a little too mentally exhausted to think too deeply about the actual situation.No matter how hard he tried, his b
car chase
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
The call
Before long, Ethan’s mind was spinning up a plan on how to get them to follow him into the villa without them feeling like it was a trap, but there was almost no chance that they would have fallen for that.They were good, and he knew it.Following him for as long as they did without him noticing them meant they were really really good and experienced.They would know it's a trap and just drive past the villa.He began considering alternatives to the plan.‘I can have Ava set up a blockade before and after the villa.’‘If they don’t follow me in, and try to drive past the villa, the blockade ahead will stop them, and a new one will be formed behind them to keep them from escaping the other way.”He was still planning his escape routes when a noise cut through the noise he was already sitting in.“Hey,” John’s voice said through the speakers.“I just realized we never ended the call.”For half a second, the world fractured as Ethan realized he hadn’t ended the call with John.Instantly
Police net
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
Shots fired
Ethan continued racing down the asphalt. They were now in a part of the city that he recognized, so he was already preparing his strategy to drive to the villa.He opened up the compartment where he had kept the emergency phone that Ava had given him precisely for moments like this.All he had to do was dial the teal button on the phone and a call would be placed directly to Ava. There was no need to dial in numbers, or scroll or even turn on the screen.He was just about to dial the number when gunshots suddenly rang out without warning, some of the bullets hitting the back of the car.Ethan jolted in shock and the phone slipped out of his hands and rolled under the seat.“Shit!” he exclaimed as he ducked his head as more gun fire erupted from the car behind him.People on the road screamed and scattered out of the way.Cars began swerving out of the way in fear of getting hit, causing him to have to swerve as well to avoid crashing into them.Slowly, he regained control of the car a