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Rags to Stardom Chapter 258
Ethan sank into a sofa in his bedroom.Since Ian's penthouse had five rooms, all three of them occupied one each.Ethan's mind suddenly drifted to the small piece of paper and old-looking key the young lad at the park had given to him.He had been so occupied with improving Samantha and Loretta's emotional state that he had forgotten to check out the address on the paper.‘What if it was a trap?’ He thought to himself.He took out the key from his pocket, staring at it for a while.There were inscriptions on it that appeared strange to him.‘What if the lad or the man who hired the kid mistook me for someone else?’ He asked himself.Meanwhile, Mr. Wedge burned with rage as he paced continuously in the other penthouse.“Dad, I know you are pissed but you need to calm down!” Gabriella tried to get him to relax.“Calm down you say? That nobody made a mess of me and you tell me to calm down?” Mr. Wedge kicked the table in front of him, sending it flying instantly.“Who does he think he is
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It took the men almost an hour to comb through the entire penthouse.The leader of the team had a rather frustrated look.He glared at Ethan a couple of times but Ethan remained still, enjoying the show he was watching on the television.All the men soon returned to the living room, exhaustion written on their faces.The team leader paced around a couple of times, but halted when he heard Loretta's voice, “What's with all the noise…” Loretta suddenly paused on sighting the strange men in the living room.Ethan turned around instantly, “Hey, you are up! Sorry about the noise, I believe they are done with their search and were just about to leave!” Ethan responded, smiling at the leader while giving him an angry glass.“Search? What search?” Loretta asked in confusion.“I'm not sure myself, perhaps the man here can explain to you,” he responded, still staring at the leader.The leader cleared his throat, obviously unsettled by Ethan's stare, “We are just carrying out a routine search, s
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John Stewart began to apologize profusely, “Mr. Banks, I'm truly sorry for this embarrassment, I didn't sanction it but he rest assured that I will get to the bottom of this!” John Stewart crashed his fist into his desk, causing a loud bang that startled his subordinates outside his office. Ethan ended the call with a satisfactory smile dancing around his lips. Loretta folded her arms in front of her chest, giving the men a disdainful stare. “Hahahaha……” The men suddenly broke into another fit of laughter. They all held a similar condescending expression on their faces as they stared at Ethan. The leader suddenly took a few steps toward Ethan, snorting, “Was that performance meant to achieve anything? Come on, I'm sure you can do better!” He mocked Ethan. The leader and his men were initially troubled by Ethan's casual tone with John Stewart but after thinking about it for a while, they quickly dispelled the thought and concluded that Ethan was only putting up a show and ha
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Samantha suddenly asked while glaring at the men.She didn't believe the routine check excuse that they had given to Ethan.The men stared at each other and then at their leader.Meanwhile, at the other penthouse, Mr. Wedge was seen smiling with great excitement.Since he received a message on his mobile phone, he has been unusually happy.“Dad, you look extremely happy, don't tell me those fools took the bait,” Thomas dropped onto the couch next to his father.After what happened the previous night, he didn't expect to see his father in such high spirits, so he guessed something must have happened.Mr Wedge chuckled, “Son, those punks are as corrupt as we are, the only difference is the side they are on!”Thomas instantly became excited. Since his encounter with Ethan, he hadn't had a peaceful night's sleep. The past couple of nights had been filled with pain and panic.He even found himself waking up several times at night to ask one or more of his men to do a perimeter sweep.But
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Loretta scowled at Gabriella as the eyes of both ladies met.A certain uneasiness overwhelmed Gabriella.Loretta suddenly took a few steps to where Ethan stood and slipped her delicate hands into his palms, her gaze swiftly returning to meet that of Gabriella.Gabriella gave a slight frown as if responding to the non-verbal message from Loretta.The men from the financial crimes unit suddenly halted their search and returned to the living room where Ethan and the others stood.“Ahh..gentlemen, I see you are done with your search…..” Mr. Wedge suddenly halted in the middle of his remark as he spotted a familiar backpack in the hands of one of the men.Mr. Wedge's jaws dropped instantly as his gaze moved from the man with the backpack to their leader before finally settling on Ethan.Thomas, Daniel, and Gabriella also stared at the backpack and instantly observed the look on their father's face.“How….How….did you get that? Where did it come from? Did someone put you up to this?” Mr. We
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Mr. Wedge beamed with excitement as he spoke, “Officer, what if I told you that the bag in your hand does not belong to me!”The leader furrowed his brows, “What do you mean, Mr. Wedge? What are you trying to say?”Mr. Wedge's eyes sparkled with even more excitement, “That bag doesn't belong to me! It was planted here by the same fellow that brought you guys here!”The leader stared at Ethan momentarily as he thought about what Mr. Wedge said.Thomas was even more confused than the officers as he knew for certain that the bag belongs to his father. He stared at his father with curiosity, observing his every move like a chess player learning from a master.Ethan narrowed his gaze at Mr. Wedge, casting an icy glare at him.A chilly feeling shot through Mr. Wedge and he took a few steps backwards in terror.“You…You…. should open it. Open the bag and I'll prove it to you!” Mr. Wedge added shakily.Loretta stared at Ethan at that instant, swallowing hard.From the looks of it, Mr. Wedge h
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Mr. Wedge chuckled, almost instantly forgetting what Daniel just said to him.“And after you have confirmed what I'm saying, I want you to also take these ladies into custody as well!” Mr. Wedge added.He remembered Thomas' tale about his first confrontation with Ethan because of the girls and he wanted both ladies to suffer for it as well.Samantha's gaze turned cold as soon as she heard Mr. Wedge's instruction to the officers. She wished Ethan hadn't previously spared him.Gabriella as well wasn't too pleased with her father's response. She didn't like the idea of Ethan going to jail, “Father, what have you got in those mobile devices anyway?” She suddenly asked him, causing Mr. Wedge to turn to her in shock.Something about his daughter's recent remarks has been somewhat confusing to him.He glared at her but smiled after a few seconds, “I'm sure our fine officers here are capable of finding that out for themselves.”Loretta felt more uncomfortable by the second. Her fears became m
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The leader scrolled through the device in his hand and was shocked at the numerous fraudulent transaction records that it contained.Both devices were like a treasure trove to any genuine official of the financial crimes unit, capable of guaranteeing a very successful career!Mr. Wedge swallowed hard as he saw the look on the leader's face.You didn't know about all that, right?” Ethan asked the leader, shaking his head.“You were willing to throw away a fulfilling career, one that any right-thinking person would jump at…..all for what? Temporary financial gains?” Ethan glared at the leader who now wore a guilty expression on his face.Mr. Wedge had only left crumbs of evidence that could easily be manipulated to set Ethan up but Ethan had recovered several hidden files in both devices that were capable of ending Mr. Wedge's criminal activities for good.All the other officers of the financial crimes unit also had remorseful expressions on their faces.They were to resume as clerks at