All Chapters of The Lost Heir: The Rise Of Ethan Walker : Chapter 11
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Dog-like behavior
“Payment successful?” Both Logan and Amelia gasped, their eyes almost falling out of their sockets. Not just them but everyone in the hall too. Did Ethan's fake card just go through with the payment of five hundred million?Wait…that meant the card was actually authentic or what? The card was the real deal? And what was more, how could a bum be able to pay five hundred million? Something a lot of families wouldn't be able to afford.Even the Hale family was worth two billion dollars. It wouldn't make sense if they took one quarter of their entire worth to buy a mere ring, right?At this point, nothing feels right anymore. If a bum like this could be so rich, then the balance of the world might have been altered. Someone was definitely tampering with the law of heaven or the world, perhaps. “Someone, anyone, explain to me how this trash owns a black card and can pay for the item?” Logan was close to losing his mind.“That card has to be fake. The payment has to be wrong. You have to
Young master
The moment Logan and Amelia were dragged out of the grand auction hall, the atmosphere shifted. The whispers that once buzzed with arrogance and distaste for a man that didn’t know vanished as everyone started looking at Ethan with unease and fear in their eyes.What kind of a man was he that Orion Asher himself would step in and throw out a member of the Hale family without any hesitation whatsoever.Everyone had questions, some were even cooking up the confidence to walk up to Ethan to apologize, but Orion Asher didn’t give them the chance.“Young Master Ethan,” the dreaded man said respectfully, inclining his head. “Please, follow me to the VIP lounge. I must apologize properly.”Axel’s eyes widened in shock when she heard Orion call Ethan ‘Young Master’, but then she thought about it, and it made sense. Afterall, she had just seen a hundred trillion dollars in his account, so it made sense that he was someone much more powerful than she’d thought.By the time she snapped out of her
The mysterious woman
Outside the VIP section, the hall had all but cleared out as all the guests had mostly left for their homes, leaving the once buzzing hall empty with just a few waiters scattered around the hall cleaning up the tables.As Ethan and Axel approached the main entrance of the building, Axel’s phone buzzed sharply just as she was about to remind Ethan that he hadn’t answered her questions about the mysterious woman he and Orion were talking about in the VIP section. She wasn’t sure if it was totally out of curiosity, she didn’t want to get caught in some dangerous power game. Having to deal with Orion tonight was dangerous enough, but someone that made Orion follow instructions without complaints ... That was definitely someone to be scared of.Her brows knit together when she checked it causing her to exhale softly.“I… I’m being called back to the bank,” she said,keeping her head down as though she was inconveniencing him. “They want clarification about tonight’s transaction logs.”Etha
Falling apart
Logan and Amelia were forced out of the grand auction hall, their faces painted with frustration. Every step they took was heavy with rage and disbelief. They could still hear Orion Asher’s voice in their head, telling security to kick them out. The looks everyone had given them as they were dragged out.Logan could remember seeing a few of his rivals snicker at him as he was being dragged out by guards, and worse yet, there was nothing he could do about it. His fists were clenched so tightly that the veins in his forearms threatened to burst through his skin. He seethed with so much anger that it made the people that were outside the hall instinctively step back.“Do you realize what just happened?!” he roared, kicking the air in futile fury. “Do you understand the insult we just suffered? Everyone in there is going to see us as nothing… we will be treated as people they can just trample on with no consequences, all because of that idiot!”“You know what? I can’t take this. I won’t,”
It's Ethan's fault
Before Logan could respond, his father ended the call, leaving him to his thoughts, until Amelia appeared, holding a tray with two glasses of iced tea. “Do you want something to drink before I finish cooking?” she asked gently, a smile playing on her lips. “You look… stressed.”Logan barely looked at her. “My father… he just threatened to disown me.”“What?”“Do you understand what that means? Millions of dollars in deals… gone. All because of someone at that auction.” Logan shook his head, squeezing so hard on his phone that the screen cracked.Amelia’s eyes widened in horror. “Wait… who? How?”He clenched his fists, pacing the floor. “Who else? It had to have been Orion Asher. The man at the auction. He… he… he humiliated us.”Amelia’s brows furrowed. “Orion Asher? Why… How is he involved with your family? Just him? That can’t be it, right? There has to be something else, someone else.”Logan stopped moving, then a bitter laugh escaped his lips. “It’s because of Ethan.”Emilia froz
Buy it, fire him
The black SUV rolled to a stop at the entrance of Capriccio, a restaurant that only the top one percent ever walked into without checking the prices first. Its glass walls glittered under the city’s lights, with winds blowing through the wind chimes hanging from the roof. It gave a calming feeling to the atmosphere.Ethan stepped out of the vehicle, adjusting the cuff of his shirt. Even without trying, he carried an aura that made the valet pause even though he didn’t recognize who he was. Ava exited from the other side, looking and walking like she was out on a red carpet.“You have good taste,” Ethan said lightly as they approached the doors. “Thank you,” Ava inclined her head with a small smile and led him inside.A private booth was already waiting for them. By the time they sat down, the waiters were placing their meals down as if they’d been trained to anticipate Ava’s timing.For a while, they ate in silence.Then Ethan set down his utensils and broke the silence.“When you c
Old life
Ethan stepped out of the restaurant without slowing his pace. He didn’t pay any attention to the manager that was yelling after him trying to ask for forgiveness. He just walked on, as if nothing was happening. The night air pressed coolly against his face, sharp enough to clear the noise in his mind but the noise kept coming back. The streetlights washed the sidewalk in pale gold as he stopped at the curb, hands in his pockets, thinking.Where am I supposed to go now? He thought to himself in silence.Ava had offered to take him back to some mansion, offered a security team, told him of an empire waiting for him to claim it. But those things felt a little too distant for him. A part of him wanted to take it, but it didn’t feel it was really his, and right now, he needed something that was his. He wanted to be someplace he felt like he owned so he could think and clear his head. The only place he could think to return to was the small apartment he had stayed in years ago, before Ame
Nobody has to die
Ethan had just left Layla and her mother. He had too much on his mind and didn’t want to have to talk to anyone so he didn’t look back. He hadn’t been here since he got married to Amelia, but he knew the landlord wasn’t going to give the room away. He didn’t know why, but the old man had always told him that it would always be there for him whenever he needed it.The keys slid into the door which groaned as he pushed it open. He took a quick second to scan the apartment before shutting the door behind him. The apartment felt unchanged, everything was just the way he’d left it. Almost everything.A sharp vibration cut through the silence as his phone lit up in his pocket. Ava.He picked it up immediately, keeping his voice tight. “What did I warn you about?” “Pardon?” Ava’s voice was calm, but she sounded confused. “What do you mean?”“I told you not to follow me.”“I… I didn’t follow you, Young Master,” she replied quickly.Ethan's eyes scanned the moonlit room as he listened, notic
The warehouse
Ethan stared at the phone screen long after the call disconnected, the man’s threat to kill Layla and her mother still ringing in his head.He had barely been back in his real identity for a day, and people were already getting kidnapped because of him? What kind of world was he really living in?The phone vibrated as a message came in. He opened it to see the location the kidnappers wanted him to go to.Taking out his own phone, he looked up the place, and it wasn’t far away. It was some abandoned warehouse a few blocks away. He could get there in ten minutes if he walked. He was about to put his phone down when he noticed something under the property info. The building was a property of Star Crest company.Ethan frowned as a name came to his mind.‘Logan Hale.’ His teeth grated against themselves in anger just thinking about it.‘Would Logan be stupid enough to use his own family’s abandoned warehouse for a kidnapping?’It was not impossible though. He didn’t know him much, but Eth
No way out
The first shot cracked through the warehouse like thunder, but Ethan had already dove out of the way.He dove behind the nearest stack of shelves as bullets tore through boxes, punching holes in the old steel and sending dust flying everywhere. The sound ricocheted off the concrete walls, echoing so loudly it made his ears ring, but only for a moment as his hearing began to adapt to the sound.“Get him!” the leader barked and more shots followed.Ethan crouched behind a pillar, his heart racing, but his mind remained calm. He scanned the area quickly and figured out where everyone was.Two of the kidnappers were advancing from the left while the leader stayed near the entrance, his gun and waiting for Ethan to come out.Ethan dropped lower, crawling deeper into the shadows between shelves, using the warehouse like a maze to hide himself as he changed his position.But as he moved, he heard a soft, shifting sound echoing behind him. Someone was coming his way. He took cover behind anot