Chapter 123 She's in danger

Chapter 123 She's in danger
Christian's POV

I moved away from where Logan is and headed towards the door. At the moment, I wanted to leave Scarlett’s side.

I had treated her wrong all these while and I didn't regret it. Or maybe that was a lie I had kept telling myself.

Her parents did shit to mine. They killed them and burned them. I don't have their confession yet but I did my findings.

They did it because of the wealth and they were able to take everything completely while casting us aside like we meant nothing to them.

Like we didn't used to be family and do things together.

Scarlett might never remember us but I could still remember when she was still young and our parents used to have us hang out together.

I held the doorknob before turning to Logan who had his eyes fixed on me as he expected me to talk.

“I'll tell you what I decide later. For now, I need to check this footage and find out the reason behind that fire” I said.

“Ethan,” Logan said quickly. My forehead creased and I turned completely to face him.

What was he talking about? Did he start the fire?

I was having my suspicions that Ethan could be the one who started the fire because of what he had said to me the other time. It showed he wanted Scarlett dead, he was aiming to kill her.

But a part of me wished he wasn't the one and he just said that out of some spite.

“What happened to Ethan?” I asked

”He was the one who asked for the party to be set up,” Logan said.

I didn't want to believe him, I didn't want to believe that Ethan was able to talk godfather into hosting the party which he hosts only once in a few months.

I knew Ethan reached out to him and that was why he came to my office, complaining about me having bad blood with Ethan but I didn't ask what they talked about.

It wasn't like any of them was going to open up to me.

“I heard them when they were talking about it,” Logan continued. “The main reason why he made Walter do it was because he wanted him to invite Scarlett”

“You guys have Scarlett twisted up in your games and that's what's making my blood boil.” He tightened his jaws.

His gaze snapped to Scarlett who was sleeping peacefully on the bed. Not peacefully, she was unconscious and we don't know when she woke up yet.

Logan and I kept our gaze on her for a few minutes before he turned back to me.

“I don't know if he started the fire but if he truly wanted that party because he wanted to harm Scarlett” he paused. “Then he's the one”

I took a deep breath. Everything was becoming clearer. He was the one who called for the party, not Walter. He was also the one who was made to call the firefighters but he called them late.

Why? Because he wanted Scarlett dead and he didn't care if I died too.

“Thank you” I said to Logan then my eyes darted to Scarlett again.

“Go, I'll stay with her,” he said.

I didn't think twice about it before I nodded. I moved out of the room and got into my car.

“Should I drive, sir?” Tom asked.

I kept my gaze on my phone and played one of the videos Walter had sent me.

“No,” I replied to Tom. “Just stay still”

I checked through the footage from when I ascended the stairs with Scarlett. I looked out for Ethan and he was staring at us until we got to the third floor.

He lurked around the stairs and looked around before he moved upstairs. While on the stairs, he turned his gaze to the back and nodded.

I could tell he was signalling to someone. I traced his gaze to where the person was and a guy who looked like he was in his late twenties nodded back at him.

Ethan left through the stairs while the guy went to the back, probably to use the elevator.

I navigated from Ethan to where the elevator was and saw that the guy went to grab a bottled container which he carried in his hand into the elevator.

Third floor. That was the floor he clicked in the elevator.

I navigated to the third floor and divided my screen into four to check both of them at the time.

First, they met up with each other and he passed Ethan the bottled container.

The guy left but I saved the footage from there and sent it to Tom’s phone immediately.

“The guy in that video I sent you” I paused. “We will need to find him,” I told him.

“Understood boss, I will get to it” he replied.

I continued watching the footage from where I kissed Scarlett. Someone was truly lurking around and that was Ethan.

He had a gas lighter getting twirled in his hand.

When he saw that we noticed him, he left. And from the other side of the floor, he started a fire after pouring the content in the bottled water on the ground.

He made sure it escalated to the staircases and the elevator before he moved away.

My hand tightened around the phone after I realized it was Ethan.

I called him immediately with my eyes still burning in anger.

“You were trying to kill her,” I said into the phone the moment he picked up. “And you didn't even want to care if I died”

“You were falling in love with her, Christian. You already fell in love with her, I can't keep watching that” he said.

The place he was in was noisy, filled with people’s voices.

“It's either she dies, or you die together” he said.

I gritted. “I won't let you harm her again!”

He laughed. “What to do? I just saw you leaving the hospital”

What was that supposed to mean? Soon, the realization hit me.

The noisy place is inside the hospital. Scarlett was in danger!!