Chapter 156

Ethan's POV

I watched silent as Annabeth took a pause from her episode took a breathe and look at us, she seemed more composed but still rattled up.

"I've got to leave." She said I shot off up the stairs

"Why? Where are you going?" Layla called after her and follow her up.

I turned to Derek, in less than a minute he'd wreak absolutely havoc on us all. This is why I didn't involve Layla in my conversation with Lucas, I didn't see her as weak, no but I also knew that certain matters are delicate so they should be handled delicately.

"When did you figure it out?"

"Last night. I was going to tell you guys first but..."

I raised a hand to cut him off, it didn't matter if he wanted to tell us earlier or not what did matter was that we had found Sedar and he was awfully closer than we thought, this entire time.

"Wait, just wait." The sound of a door shutting and hurried steps called out attention.

Annabeth was basically running down the steps with Cho is her arms, she was leaving with h