Chapter 1245 Ethan's Affair
Sometime later they return to the summer and spring guesthouse where Garrof and Lloyd already waiting for them, when Lory and Zhao Li Xin arrive Garrof immediately greets them "Yo, Princess, I heard that someone is causing trouble with you in the Guild?" Garrof opened his arms while joking.
Lory waved her hand casually "Just a small problem"
"I'll bet!" Garrof grinned playfully "By the way, I got news from Jason, he said the hunter slash assassin named Belladonna from the underground guild is looking for you"
Lory threw her shopping bag onto the sofa then replied nonchalantly, "Belladonna? But I've never heard of her before"
"I'm sure you've met some gifted people from underground guilds before" Garrof hinted about the incident that Lory seems already forgotten.
Lory took a moment to remember, "...oh yeah, the group that kidnapped me before, is that her?" obviously she didn't take the incident seriously.
"Yes, apparently he and his group were sent to look for you," Garrof answered.
"We have data on them here." Lloyd opened his tablet and then placed it on the dining table.
Zhao Li Xin sat down then took the tablet and began to browse through the information on the tablet carefully, he wanted to know the people who dared to attack his wife when he was not around.
Lory had just taken a mineral bottle from the refrigerator after that she walked behind Zhao Li Xin and then leaned her chin on his shoulder lazily while reading the tablet with little interest.
"Bella Fox" Lory muttered then she looked at the woman picture who was quite different from the woman she saw before, the woman in the picture had black hair, and amber eyes even so Lory could still see the similarity with the woman with yellow dress, It's funny how Lory remembers the yellow shirt more than her face, maybe because the woman's body looked really good in that outfit, well she does remembers the woman had ash brown hair which later turned black after her shapeshifter spell was nullified by her attack.
"And this is her new gank" Lloyd swiped the tablet then another picture appeared.
"I'm not sure, but the other two were replaced by these guys now"
Lory frowned, as far as she remembered she didn't injure Bella's teammates too much "What happened to the previous members?"
"Does she change her gank's members often?" Lory asked while scrolling through photos of two people and then discovered that the new member had a fire gift and the other could control the electric current. A smile bloomed on Lory's face she understood why Bella chose these new members. Someone just makes a preparation. "I'm not sure, but the other two were replaced by these guys now"
Lory frowned, as far as she remembered she didn't injure Bella's teammates too much "What happened to the previous members?"
"I don't know but their file was labeled with the word deceased so probably they all dead, I guessed they were punished because they failed to take you down" answered Lloyd.
"You don't need to feel guilty about it" Lloyd was worried Lory would be disheartened knowing one way or another he caused their deaths.
Lory looked at Lloyd with a comforting smile "I don't.." Lory then swiped the tablet to check the other members and her movements stopped on one of the pictures "This guy...he still has it"
Lory remembered the young man with neon blue hair, but here he had greenish hair and bright blue eyes.
"Hey, this one is still alive?! this blue neon guy is the one who spilled everything, I thought if someone going to be punished he would be the first" Lory was baffled.
"Well, somehow he managed to stay alive," Garrof also felt strange.
"Maybe he has other uses" Zhao Li Xin suddenly interjected.
Everyone glanced at Zhao Li Xin at the same time, and after a brief contemplation, they felt what Zhao Li Xin said made sense.
"By the way, what about the Augburn family, what is the situation now?" Lory pulled a chair next to Zhao Li Xin and sat down while leaning her back casually.
"I heard from Jack, that the relationship between Augburn and Hamilton has become more intense they're not even trying to pretend anymore, hence the Ellecant group now is divided into two groups though the Hamilton group is still more dominant, it's just that Ethan's sudden disappearance has caused bad rumors about him to circulate, which I think was deliberately spread by the Augburn family, but with Edmund and Hugo Hamilton take a stronghold on the Ellecant group this rumors only created small ripple for the hamilton's, especially when compared to the scandal caused by Ron Augbur all these years," Garrof said while pouring whiskey into a glass containing ice cubes for him, but then Garrof poured the whiskey into another glass and then pushed the glass at Zhao Li Xin direction sign him to have a try.
The strong aroma of alcohol wafted into his nose reminding him of a familiar feeling, he took the transparent glass and then took a sip while his brows furrowed, this was unlike any drink he had ever tasted, curious he tried it once again.
Garrof was happy that Zhao Li Xin seemed to enjoy it or at least he tried it then he took a cookie jar from the plastic grocery store and put it on the table for Lory, he thought a girl like Lory would like this sweet thing and he was right.
"Any news about who the liaison between the Augburn family and the underground Guild?" Lory asked while opening the cookie bag.
"Sadly we are still unable to find out who that man or woman was," Garrof said regretfully.
"No, I already expected that," Lory said while her mouth was busy chewing "It's not easy to pry information from the underground Guild"
"Well, even though Jason has tried tapping Robert and Jacob Augburn's cellphones, unfortunately, he is still unable to trace the source of the call. They probably have anti-spy plant in their cellphones" Garrof clicked his tongue in annoyance.
Lory took another bite of her cake while sighing "At least we know their still in contact with each other, so for now we can only watch and see what we can find"
"Yeah, for now," Garrof took another sip.
"By the way, is there any news about Ethan's possible whereabouts?" Lory puts finding Ethan as her top priority if she wants to know what happened in Luxemborough and The S.A.I.N.T. plan
"Oh that, I just got interesting news from Jack and Maddy, even though we still don't know where he is but we had some clue what happened with him before the incident"
"Maddy?" Lory surprised.
"Yeah, don't let that sweet face fool you when it gathers information like gossip she is the best cause people tend to like her," Lloyd explains.
"Oh" Lory's fondness for Mady increased a bit more, "Then what we got from our lovable Maddy?" Lory squeezes the empty cookie bag and then throws it into the trash bin.
"Unbeknownst to the Hamilton family, our good boy Ethan actually had a 'fling' with one of his assistants Elena Reynold, the sexy brunette with big—" Garrof makes an inappropriate gesture.
"Got it!" Lory cuts in "Then what happened"
"Well, the hot lady is gone too" Garrof's voice deepened.
Lory gasped, "Why I didn't see any news about this? Usually, if a woman goes missing, especially someone with an honorable profession like Elena disappeared the entire media will report this news in prime time"
"Because...she's not actually missing, just before she 'disappeared' she told her family that she was going on a long retreat to heal herself after her marriage broke up. Moreover, Elena sometimes still sent news to her family but she never told them clearly about her whereabouts and according to Elena's family is so not like her at all, that's why her family began to feel worried and then reported her to the authorities but of course, their report was denied by the authorities," Garrof shrugged his shoulders in resignation.
Lory's eyes widened "Wait a minute, so she and Ethan were having an affair" she stupefied.
"Well, that is based on the lady janitor who accidentally caught Ethan and Elena leaving the hotel together however she never saw them being intimated whatsoever at the office but they do look closer than just any normal co-worker but who knows if this is just a misunderstanding or gossip from the old lady"
Garrof doesn't really care about Ethan's personal life, even if Ethan does have an affair there's nothing strange about that because this can happen to any people who work together in close distance for a long time.
"So, what else do we know from the nosy lady janitor?" Lory asked while unscrewing the mineral bottle.
"The janitor lady said, that one night she heard Ethan and Elena arguing about something and it was quite loud too, that's why it was heard by the Lady janitor, however, she didn't know what they were arguing about but she heard something about crossing the line and it was too dangerous" Garrof raised his glass and then gently spun the glass in his hand as soon as the clear sound of ice cubes hitting the glass added to the tension in the room.
Everyone fell silent as they all had the same suspicion that whatever they were arguing about might explain why Ethan had attracted the attention of the Luxemborough and the S.A.I.N.T. organization.
"So, what happened after they fought?" Lory's expression became heavy.
"Luckily there was CCTV in the parking lot of another building which showed Elena and Ethan going home separately and the next day they went back to work as usual, but two weeks later she divorced her husband, and not long after that Elena resigned from his high paid job and went on a long retreat."
Lory pondered for a moment then looked at Garrof, "Can we find out what project they were working on at that time?"
Garrof slammed his glass down on the table hard, "Guess what, all the data about his work during that time was wiped clean from his computer motherboard, company servers, personal accounts, and everything, I've told Edmund to check it but he got absolutely zilch!"
"Someone deleted it on purpose" muttered Lloyd.
"Most likely Ethan himself" Lory massaged her forehead while taking a deep breath "My guess is he did this to protect his family"
"Then what should we know?" Lloyd was frustrated that they were at a dead end again.
Lory took a sip from the mineral bottle and then took a deep breath "There are only two people who know what really happened, namely Ethan and Elena, so since we can't find Ethan, why don't we look for Elena?"
"But his family doesn't even know where he is," Garrof said.
"We can start tracing him from the last place he disappeared and see if anyone approached him or talked to him, check the hotels and restaurants he visited, and see if there were any suspicious guests, oh, also someone better check Elena's house cause she might leave something and found out who she was been in contact before she went on 'long retreat' " Lory make quotation mark with her fingers.
Garrof and Lloyd look at each other, and they both think why we didn't think about that? Garrof took his phone and then walked briskly while saying: "I called Jason to track what Elena had been doing before disappeared and gave an update to Edmund, he might be able to help" "I called Jack perhaps he can help us more" Lloyd also made a call in a hurry.
Lory raised her arms "And I will have dinner"
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