The Enigmatic Alexander Chase

Chapter 23: Dead men do tell tales

Ethan Bishop looked at his phone. It was a text from Caroline Lockwood, Seraphina’s mother. The message read:

“Sir Ethan Bishop, I beg of you to denounce the rumor circulating between you and my daughter, Seraphina. I am sure it’s all a big misunderstanding. Please Sir Bishop, I am certain we can come to some sort of arrangement.”

Ethan Bishop felt disgusted and infuriated reading the text. “The audacity of that woman,” he vented.

Here he was, two floors away from death, and she dared to send him such an irrelevant message. Why was everyone so hell-bent on making him look like a fool by asking him to denounce the rumors he had already indirectly confirmed as truth?

Caroline’s plea, he could understand. But what was so special about Seraphina Lockwood that even Jacob Harrington himself came to pressure him with a blank check—a literal blank check, hell, he could have written five hundred billion dollars. Jacob Harrington’s account was certainly capable of giving out such an outrageous