Chapter 54

The look on Eddie's face sent shivers down everyone's spine, everyone except Ethan who wasn't surprised by the call.

He swallowed the pain he still felt as he answered the call but the voice on the other end sounded very angry, “You fool, you just exposed us. I can't protect you anymore. The police are on their way. Don't ever call this number again, you got that!”

“Wait, what do you mean? What's going on?” He was terrified of going to jail. He wondered what all the people he had ripped off in the past and framed would do to him if he ended up in jail. He was sure he wouldn't even last a day in there.

“You just pissed off someone high up you moron. I thought I warned you to avoid those with means and connections. I shouldn't even be talking to you.”

The call immediately dropped with cold sweat breaking out on his face. The call was from his contact within the Cedarwood Police Department.

He had been under the commissioner’s protection and in exchange, Eddie paid him an agreed sum eve