Purpose: Whisperer of Night
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All Ryder could do as he waited for Skylar’s nephew to get out of his meeting was think about whether or not he should have left her alone. It wasn’t like he couldn’t trust Skylar but he just needed to see how she dealt with his mother first for some reason this was extremely important to him. He only allowed one person to contact him and that was Loretta he didn’t want to have to rely on anyone or anything for that matter.
Hank walked out of an office down the hall with all of his things in a box, when he noticed Ryder he looked angry or better yet beyond angry he looked pissed.
“Ryder Ferris,” a deep man’s voice called. Ryder looked over to see Skylar’s Uncle with his head sticking half way out of his office waiting for Ryder to get p and follow him. Ryder was familiar with the place he’s been here twice and already expected to see Ethan’s extremely white office and highly uncomfortable chairs. “Have a seat,” he said. “So what do you want to add to your witness sheet and does Skylar know you’re here?” The second question caught Ryder off guard but he didn’t let it be noticed as he answered the second question not yet knowing what to say for the first question.
“Why do you ask?”
“So that’s a yes,” he responded as he folded his hands on top of his desk. “So what would you like to add to your witness sheet?”
“It’s about Eric, not Richard,” Ryder said quickly trying to think of something.
“Who is Eric?” Ryder was surprised that Ethan didn’t know and all he could think was that he just might be delving some important information here.
“Eric Masterson was Richard Masterson’s son.”
“Ok and what have you come to tell me about this Eric Masterson.”
“Well Eric had died during one of our annual battles and Richard wasn’t at all happy about that.”
“How could you tell?”
“Well you mean besides the fact the he had battled Aaron for his title, a couple of our men had to stop Richard from causing a fight right there with Aaron because he thought that Eric dying was purpose because Aaron didn’t want him to battle.”
“And why didn’t Aaron want him to battle?”
“Because he wasn’t ready.”
“And you were correct? It has come to my attention that you have done most of the fighting during those annual battles.”
“What the hell does that have to do with anything?” Ryder asked a bit defensive, trying not to lash out at Skylar’s Uncle because…well he was Skylar’s Uncle.
“Do you spend a lot of time with my Niece?” he asked suddenly.
“Why?” Ryder asked confused.
“Because you’re starting to sound like her, she asked me the same thing and dare I say it it was word for word too.”
“How much time I spend with your niece isn’t the issue right now.”
“But I think it is—”
“Because you’re making it one,” Ryder interrupted, “The fact that I spend any time at all with your niece is creating a problem and making you lose focus of what’s important. Isn’t that the exact reason you laid her off of the case in the first place? Because you were afraid that she was becoming too involved? Don’t make that same mistake,” Ryder warned. Ethan didn’t look at all happy about the way that Ryder had spoken to him but he chose not to say anything for a while.
“Does my niece know that it is your whisperers that are being targeted and going missing? Is there a reason you haven’t told her that? I asked her if she knew where the whisperers were being taken from and where they were being dumped and she had no idea, so I gave her a week to figure it out and still I bet she doesn’t even know.”
“Why is that important?”
“I don’t know you tell me, you thought that it was important enough to keep it from her, there must be some logical explanation of why that is right? And why is it that it’s your specific whisperers that are going missing there are whisperers all over the place so why target yours, does that not make you wonder?”
“No, truthfully it doesn’t.”
“Are you sure?” Ethan asked as though he knew something that Ryder was pretending he did not.
“Yes I’m sure, why the hell are you asking me this?”
“I was just wondering,” Ethan said as he leaned back in his chair. “I think you should tell her though maybe she knows.” Ryder didn’t understand where Ethan was coming from but he couldn’t bring himself to care either.
“Whatever, I gave you my statements do whatever the hell you want with them, but I’m leaving,” Ryder said getting up to leave.
“Ryder everything I do and say is for a reason though you may deny it I know you care about my niece but if you truly care you’d tell her what I said it may be important to her; I know my niece and she can find important information out of the smallest of details.” Ryder didn’t doubt that for a minute he watched her do it.
“I’ll keep that in mind,” he said not sure if he meant it or not as he left.