Chapter 249: Reunited.

Ethan Grey's phone rang with the distinctive tone reserved only for one particular caller - his father, Jonathan. He exhaled slowly, steeling himself for whatever new crisis or demand was about to be leveled. With all that had transpired already over the course of this day, he knew better than to simply hope this was a social call. "This is Ethan," he answered evenly, foregoing any pleasantries. "I trust your day has been just as eventful as mine," Jonathan's cultured voice crackled over the line, a hint of dry amusement tingeing his words. "Though I imagine with fewer heads of state and federal pawns begging for assurances about exactly whose chessboard this latest round of fireworks is playing out on." Ethan's jaw clenched at the oblique reference to his father's shadowy machinations clearly being a factor in the events currently upending his life. "You'd be correct," he bit out. "Cindy was temporarily relocated after an...incident." He hesitated a moment before adding, "I'm sure