All Chapters of The Lost Heir: The Rise Of Ethan Walker : Chapter 141
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Tell me about today
“Oh for God’s sake,” Ava was already getting pissed.“Step aside,” she said and pushed past Axel, forcing her way into the house before gesturing for Ethan to walk in.Ethan walked into the house with Ava following behind him immediately, leaving Axel at the door for a moment before she quickly tried to recover from her thoughts and shut the door.She shut the door and turned to watch her guests.She caught herself watching just Ethan though, but she didn’t stop herself. She managed to convince herself that it was fine because she had spent more time seeing Ava than she saw Ethan since she came to his home.She knew that that was a lie, but she held on to that lie and just kept watching him.He looked different from the last time she’d seen him, which was just earlier today, but so much had happened with her today that it felt like it had been a while since she last saw him. He looked quieter now, and from the way he had spoken to her at the door a moment ago, he was a lot less sharp
beyond all odds
When she finished, silence settled between them again for a moment before Ethan finally cleared his throat and spoke.“I can intervene,” he said with a low but audible tone.Axel looked at him at the point like she was confused, trying to figure out where his response was coming from.Ethan sat up in his spot on the couch and spoke a little clearly.“I can intervene with whatever is going on at your place of work… if you want me to, of course,” he added that last part to assure her that there was no pressure.Axel looked up at Ava that was already looking at them at this point, still at the window, and Ethan gently held her cheek, softly directing her eyes back to him.“Don’t worry about Ava, you don’t need her permission for this,” Ethan said, knowing that if Ava gave Axel a single look, Axel will lose every inclination to say yes, so he pulled her eyes down to his to make sure her decision here was her decision fully.“No!” Axel shook her head immediately, removing his hand from her
Beautiful eyes
“Master Ethan,” Ava cleared her throat at the first chance she got, so she could remind him of the need to return home without interrupting their conversation in a disrespectful manner.“What is it?” Ethan raised his head to her.“You have work to get back to tomorrow sir,” Ava said.“You should consider rounding up here so you can be well rested for tomorrow’s activities, sir.”She didn’t want to have to use this sentence, because she didn’t want him going back to the office, at least, not for another week.With her statement just now, she had basically given him ammo to use against her when she suggested he should stay home for a while to let things cool off.But it was either that or she would be unable to get the information she wanted on the shoot out from him.Ethan looked at Axel for a moment then nodded.“I will have to leave now, Ava is right,” he said as he got up.“Thank you for taking out time to check in on me, I really appreciate it… Ethan,” she paused before saying his
This isn't romance
Axel was still doing the math in her head when she realized that it was going to cost him a lot to acquire the back, not to mention the fact that they had no real reason to sell off the company.The bank had been so optimized that they had barely ever made any losses in the past half decade, so convincing them to sell would be next to impossible.It would involve probably a double payment of what the company is worth.The scale of the cost of such a decision was heavy, and it hit Axel like a delayed shockwave.For a moment, just a brief moment, her mind betrayed her. A thought slipped into her head uninvited, but it felt dangerously warm to think of, and she couldn’t stop the thought.‘Does that mean I matter that much to him?’ she thought to herself as a warm smile began to form on her face.Ava caught the shift with the side of her eyes instantly and scoffed.“Don’t read into it,” she said firmly. “This isn’t romantic.”Axel flushed. “I didn’t…”“You did,” Ava cut in, not giving Ax
The target
Ethan leaned back against the edge of the table in the center of the living room, his arms folded loosely. His posture was relaxed, but it was this deceptively relaxed pose he had learned in the past that was now a part of him. It really helped him in moments when he was in danger, looking that relaxed would always scare the trouble away before it got to him. But Ava knew that look. She had actually been the one that shared it with him. It was something her dad had been teaching her to do when they were still young highschoolers.She had never been able to master it, but Ethan did, and he didn’t with lessons from an amateur that was learning herself.So just one look at him, and she knew he was trying to hide a lot of questions in his head.After a little pause, Ethan resumed speaking again.“What if it wasn’t a coincidence?” he continued. “What if he’d already been tracking her movements? He might have even had us followed from day one after I took her from him at that wedding of
Wrong place, wrong time
“I don’t want to think the worst about what I saw, so my initial assumption was that you got caught in the middle of a shootout,” Ava began, telling him of the exact train of thought she had thought of while they were at Axel’s condo.“I am guessing it was just a ‘wrong place, wrong time’ situation, right?”“I mean, it happens, even in a city as safe as Brighton, bad things still happen. People die like that every day. Your car being armored is probably the only reason you’re alive.”Ethan looked at her for a while, and he was surprised by her assumption.The conversation of ‘what happened to the car?’ was something he was hoping to avoid, because he knew she was not going to let it rest.As much as he was pretty much her boss, she sometimes made it seem like they were on the same level or she was holding more authority than him.She would sometimes talk to him like a friend, and other times, she would scold him like a mother scolding her only child, and this situation was the kind of
The history
Ava stilled hearing his answer.She was unsure if she had reacted that way because she was shocked she was wrong or if it was because it meant that she was way off with her theory and the situation was much more worse than she thought.“I mean it was pretty close to what you described just now. I was attacked and shot up, I was actually the target, and they were trying to destroy the bulletproof integrity of the car,” he said then sighed.“But… It didn’t happen because I pissed anyone off. Well, at least, not today anyways.”Ava looked at him with confusion in her eyes. What did he mean by that? For how long has he been pissing people off?Had she been putting so much energy into keeping Alexander Cole blind that she didn’t realize that someone else was after him?If there were other people after him that he hadn’t told her about, just how many enemies had he accumulated?There were so many questions building up in her head, but she managed to push them down and just listen.She did
An RPG
Ava pulled away, signalling for him to continue with his analysis.“The money spent on this whole thing is beyond her. And I am not just talking about the bribery cash.”“I am talking of the weapons used, the money she would have to pay the mercenaries for their services and compensate them for the ammo they used. “I mean whoever was behind this was powerful and wealthy enough to afford to have them use an RPG, and she doesn’t strike me as someone that would have been…”Ava froze and stopped listening to Ethan as something caught her attention in his statement just now.“…An RPG?” she replete his words to him and Ethan stopped talking.He swallowed hard, realizing how much he had just exposed himself.Even though he was telling her the truth, he was planning to keep that part out of the discussion, but he got too comfortable and now she knew about the RPG.“…Yes,” Ethan said with a defeated tone.Ava’s jaw dropped.“You were attacked with an RPG?” she whispered.Ethan hesitated but
More to loose
Ethan sighed as he contemplated if to tell her of the other possibilities he was considering at the moment.After thinking about it for a while, he decided to let her know.“Logan Hale,” he said.Ava looked at him, trying to figure out why Logan Hale was on the list. Ethan saw the look on her face and immediately explained Logan Hale’s motive to her.“You remember that he has tried to kill me before, right?”“Oh… Yes,” Ava nodded slowly as it began making sense in her head.“Well, his attempt failed, and he knows that I know that he was responsible, so since I’m still alive, that makes me a liability,” Ethan continued.“If I eventually go to court with it, it won’t end well for him, and I am willing to bet that the fact that I haven’t tried to use it as an excuse to blackmail him has him unsettled every day.”“So if he gets me out of the picture, he would be sure that his reputation and his family are all secure, so… yeah, he would want me dead. Probably more than Alexander Cole if
Time will tell
Hearing Ethan’s explanation, Ava was pretty sure she recognized who the people were that were chasing after him.“Are you sure of that?” Ava edged forward, with an expression mixed with concern and amusement on her face.Ethan only nodded.“That's… That’s rather curious,” Ava said.“Sometimes last year, I heard reports of these groups of mercenaries that were roaming the city like federal agents.”“Apparently, even the police never interfered whenever they were on the street,” Ava said with a look of worry on her face.“If what you saw really happened, then I think those men were a group of mercenaries called…”“... The Three Horsemen,” Ethan finished her statement for her.Her breath caught.“You… You know them?”Ethan nodded.“Well, not exactly. I heard of them. While working in the bar, I overheard some guys talk about them sometimes, so when it happened today, my first thought was that they were the ones in the car.”Ava swallowed hard as she nodded grimly. “They’re among the dea