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Chapter 72: Ethan’s Update...

Chapter 72: Ethan’s Update...

(Jace’s POV)

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I watched Casey’s eyes open wide in panic as we heard the car pull into the driveway and the bright lights from the headlamps flooded in through the windows.

"Shit!" I gasped. Ethan was here, and I sure as hell didn’t want him seeing us this way.

"The door," Casey whispered to me.

I glanced over at her, "what’s with it?"

"You didn’t lock it!" She snapped.

Just then, it clicked. I remembered how I had been focused on getting her clothes off, I simply kicked the door shut. Now, all Ethan had to do was push it open and he would be inside, seeing us in all our naked glory.

"Fuck!" I cursed under my breath as I heard the car pull to a halt and the engine went off. The headlamps quickly followed.

Without another thought, I surged to my feet, however, it was still shaky from the bone-melting orgasm that I had. I fell back to the couch at once.

"Jace!" Casey called in a panic as she grabbed her hoodie once more, holding it protectively over her breasts. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Just give me a minute, okay?"

We heard the slam of a car door.

"Did you hear that?" Casey demanded, "he just left the car, he’s coming towards the door right now."

That seemed to be all the motivation I needed. Adrenaline pumped through my veins and I jumped to my feet once more. I hurried through the living room. Knocking my toe into the leg of one of the couches, but that didn’t stop me. I limped on until I got to the door and turned the lock. Just then, the knob twisted.

Ethan was already at the door. If I was even a second late, he would have walked right in.

Then, he knocked on the door. That was our cue. At once, Casey grabbed what was left of her clothes and hurried off to her bedroom. I’m sure she was going to change into something else. However, that wasn’t the case with me. I had no choice but to wear the ones I had only just taken off.

Ethan knocked once more, a bit more fiercely this time around. I put on my hoodie and then, I was ready.

"Who is there?" I called out, pretending not to know he was the one knocking.

"Seriously?" Ethan’s voice fired back through the door. "I just told you that I was on my way! Open the damn door!"

"Oh..." I muttered weakly as I hurried over to the door. I looked around the living room one last time, nothing looked out of place. It was all as it was supposed to be. Then, I unlocked the door and opened it.

Ethan stood on the other side frowning. I looked past him and saw that he had driven an SUV over, he must have reached out to the driver to bring it over for him.

"What the hell took you so long?" Ethan demanded as he walked past me.

I looked around the neighborhood one last time before closing the door once more, and I made sure I locked it this time around. Ethan walked into the living room towards the center table, however when he stopped halfway and began to look around, his eyes squeezed as he turned to me.

"What is it?" I asked, feeling myself blush a little. I knew the look on his eyes, it was the look he had when he was onto something spicy.

"Where’s Casey?" He asked me.

"In her bedroom, she should join us soon."

Ethan sniffed the air, he was like a dog on a scent. The minute he did that, I realized why. It was unmistakable! The air was thick with the smell of heat and sex. It was almost like it had been sprayed heavily in the living room.

"Holy shit..." he muttered. "What the hell have you been up to?"

"Oh shut up!" I said as I lowered myself to the closest couch.

"I can’t believe this," he said. "While I’ve been busting my ass of trying to find this bastard you’ve been busting your nuts off inside..." he broke off as he threw himself into the long couch "This is fucked up! Why didn’t you just tell me to hold on?"

"You didn’t give me the chance to, did you? You simply said your piece and that was it! Besides, I couldn’t tell you not to come, you were already ten minutes away and what you were doing is very important."

"Yeah," he said sarcastically. "That’s why I have to come to a house reeking of sex."

"Can you please stop saying it like that? You’re being so crude."

"Seriously? You didn’t mind it in the morning when you and Casey were fighting."

"Well, we’ve made up now. So cut it out."

He only shrugged, "I’m happy for the part I played in that."

"Good," I said as I shifted in the seat. "So, what do you have for us?"

"A little progress."

"What the fuck, Ethan? You said you had blown the damn thing wide open, was that an exaggeration?"

"I don’t know," he shrugged. "That’s what it looked like to me, I’ll let you make that decision on your own and decide if I was exaggerating or not."

"Fine! So, are you gonna tell me now? What the fuck do you have?"

"I’m not repeating myself, we wait until Casey comes out."

Right on cue, the door to her bedroom opened and she walked out. She was dressed in thin baggy shorts and a loose-fitting blouse that was a bit big for her. Just seeing her alone reminded me of our explosive encounter on the very couch that Ethan was currently sitting on. I shifted in my seat, trying to hide my erection as she came to sit beside me. If there was one thing I was sure of, Casey and I were not done at all.

When she sat beside me, Ethan cleared his throat and began to speak, "I checked out the number that Ramon gave us, it was a burner."

"Shit!" I cursed. "Maven had taken extra steps to make sure we didn’t find him so easily."

"Yeah, but he wasn’t always so careful, was he?" Ethan replied with a smirk.

"Eazy Bacon?" Casey asked.

"You’re damn right," Ethan said. "I managed to get the footage of the day in question and I’ve watched it. And sure enough, Maven was caught on camera."

Casey’s hand immediately covered her mouth as her eyes widened in amazement, "that’s so awesome! We finally know what he looks like now?"

Ethan nodded, "Yeah. And I’m certain that he’s the same person we saw on the footage that Joan sent us. They have the same physique and body type. Hell, the fucker even wore the same cap to see Ramon. With all this sophistication, being caught by an ordinary CCTV camera is making me lose my respect for him.

"He didn’t expect that, and that oversight is to our advantage." I said with a nod, "What’s the plan now? When do we go after him?"

"We don’t! I do. This is my job, allow me to do it. I don’t want a repeat of what happened at Ramon’s, so please, don’t get any more funny ideas."

"I can protect myself, as I’ve already proven. We’ll go after Maven and demand to let him tell us everything he has found out so far. But that’s an argument for another day. What’s more important is the address, you do have it, right?"

"Yeah... that’s the not-so-good part. I don’t have it yet. My friends in the Force are running his image through the database as we speak, hopefully, by tomorrow we’ll find a match and we’ll know for sure who he is. That would in turn lead to his address."

"Okay then, so it’s still good news. We have something to go with, it’s not so bad, is it?" Casey said.

"No, it’s not," I replied with a sigh. "But it sure makes this a lot harder for us. What about the number that we got from the footage? The blurred one, please don’t tell me that was also a burner."

"I sure hope not," he replied. "Because we’re still yet to get the full picture. The analyst said he had to recreate the picture pixel by pixel and that is taking a lot of time."

"Come on, how hard can it be?" I demanded, "It’s only a small part we need; the part of the phone’s screen, that’s all!"

"He’s a cop as well, okay? So he has a lot on his hands catching criminals. It’s a privilege that he was even able to squeeze my request in."

"Yeah..." I rolled my eyes. "I’m sure someone in Chillz can get it done. I’ll send the picture to someone in the VFX team, let me see what they can do with it."

Ethan only shrugged, "All that matters is the results."

"So, is this everything? What exactly do we do now?" Casey asked.

"What else? We wait. Hopefully, by morning the cops would have an address for me. Then, we’d finally deal with this Maven issue once and for all."

"Where’s the footage from Eazy Bacon?" I asked. "Can I watch it?"

"There’s no need," Ethan said as he pulled his phone out and passed it to me. "That’s a screenshot of Maven."

It was a clear picture, one that clearly captured his face. Now that I was seeing it, I was convinced as well that he was the same guy who had camped outside Kira’s room on the night of the rehearsal dinner. I studied the face, burning it into my memory.

"Let me see..." Casey held out her hand and I gave her the phone. She looked at the picture, her eyes screwed up a bit, tilting her head to the side as if she was suddenly deep in thought.

"What is it?" I asked.

"This is Maven?" She asked.

I nodded, "Yeah. You know him?"

Ethan shifted in his seat, "seriously?"

Casey nodded, "I think I do. I know who Maven is."