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2024-04-05 07:00:38Layla’s POV
I woke up the next morning and couldn’t find Ethan anywhere. I checked the rooms and went downstairs. Annabeth came out of her room yawning.
“Good morning, Annabeth. Have you seen Ethan today?” I asked
“No, I didn’t see him”, Annabeth replied
“What about the children?” I inquired
“They should be upstairs. I slept very late yesterday, and I checked on them before going to bed”, Annabeth answered
“Let me check on them”, I stated, returning upstairs.
I entered the children's room and saw that Aria and Cho were still asleep. I remembered Violet asked to see Aria, so I took her today.
Annabeth entered the room to check the children, and I left her with them. I entered the kitchen and prepared a meal for
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Ethan’s POVViolet allowed me to think about my decision, and I sat down in the living room, thinking about my decision. Violet came into the living room to check on me.“Are you done thinking about it?” Violet said“I have one condition”, I began, and Violet nodded“You always have to let me know of your movements and carry me along”, I continued, and Violet agreed“I can do that; I need all the information you have on sedar”, Violet replied“I’ll ask Lucas to send you the information we have on Sedar,” I said“Okay, I’ll work on it immediately and let you know what I get”, Violet stated“Okay, I trust you” I replied“I need to go and check on t
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Layla’s POV I followed Ethan to the business meeting, and Aria cooperated with me. Ethan introduced me to the stakeholders in the meeting, and they greeted me well. I watched as Ethan attended to them and solved every question. One of the stakeholders asked about my partnership with the company, and Ethan signalled that I answered the question. I answered the question confidently, and the stakeholders commended me. Ethan shook hands with them, and they left. “You did well”, Ethan said, and I smiled Aria looked up at Ethan, and he commended her for not making a fuss. I rubbed Aria’s head. “Let’s go”, Ethan said, and I nodded. We left the restaurant and headed for home. The ride home was smooth and quiet. I got inside the house and went upstairs to change my dress. My phone started to ring, and I picked it up. “Hello, it’s Bridget,” Bridget said “Bridget, I’m so sorry I haven’t called yet. How is Charlie?” I asked “Charlie is doing fine. I called to inform you that there is
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Ethan’s POVI tried to calm Layla down, but she wasn’t having it; I lay on the bed waiting for her to calm down.Layla stood up suddenly and announced that she was going to Drake’s.“Why are you going there? Did something happen?” I asked concerned “Nothing is wrong; I just want to pick Cho up,” Layla replied, and I allowed her to leave.After Layla left, I checked if Annabeth was okay and saw her sleeping soundly. I closed the door gently, careful not to wake her up.Lucas's call came in, and I went into the room to pick it up.“Any update?” I asked “Yes, we have intel on him,” Lucas replied“Okay, send it to Violet,” I let out“Violet? Why should I send them to Violet?” Lucas asked confused I rubbed my hands on my head, remembering that I had not informed Lucas of the new development. I paused for a while, thinking of the best way to explain to Lucas.“Are you there?” Lucas said, and I could hear the impatient tone.“Yes, Violet got discharged, as you know, and wants to help,” I
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Ethan’s POV———Two days afterLayla was leaving today, and I felt anxious about it. I wanted to beg her not to leave, but I didn’t dare say anything. I helped Layla pack her bags and placed them by the door.I went back to pack my bags, and I carried them with me. I picked up my keys and saw Layla dragging her box. I moved towards her and tried collecting, but Layla refused. I followed closely, and Aria followed behind, holding a teddy. Annabeth came out with her box, and Cho carried the other bag.“Will you be fine?” Layla asked, and Annabeth nodded“I’ll keep you updated about us”, Annabeth replied, referring to herself and Cho.“I’ll wait for your update. Do take care of yourself,” Layla stated“I’ll miss you”, An
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Layla's POVI crawled under the covers off the bed sheets to call it a night, Aria was tucked in her bed and fast asleep. Forcing my eyelids shut I tossed and turned restlessly. The bed was comfortable, that wasn't the problem.I could not stop envisioning Ethan's hurt expression when we left. He had tried to hide it but I could sense it.I pondered on whether I should call him or not, would he be asleep or would he be occupied with something else. Our flight has gone quicker than expected so he probably still expected me to he on the flight. After a few more minutes of torture, I picked up my phone and dialed Ethan's number. "Hello" I said in a slight whisper."Layla?." The surprise and joy in his voice echoed through the phone which brought a smile to my face."You're probably curious, we landed a couple hours ago. The flight was quicker than I anticipated." I explained"Oh, that's good. Where's Aria? Is everything okay over there?" He sounded worried"No, everything is fine. Aria
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Ethan's POV I stared at my phone, I hadn't heard from Layla since yesterday. No call, no text, nothing and I was starting to get worried. She was probably just busy but I had an eerie feeling something was up. I called Lucas for some positive news but he just said they met a dead end in the course of the investigation. I was starting to reach my beaking point with the lack of good news. I decided to call Annabeth to see if she knew anything about Layla. "I haven't spoken to her since she left." She said to my surprise, weren't they supposed to be checking up on each other. I rubbed my temple in an attempt to stay calm and I heard someone speak in the background. "Could you please try to reach her?" I decided not to pry "Yeah, sure. I'll see if I can get across to Bridget too...stop it" she giggled and spoke in inaudible whispers, obviously not to me. "Where's Cho?, How's she doing?" I asked casually "She's doing great, she's over with Derek." She said and I pulled the pie
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Layla's POV"What's wrong?" Bridget called after me as I dashed for my car. I couldn't even respond, my mind raced for an explanation to disregard the worst-case scenario I had envisioned in my mind."No, it's just a mistake, I'm the one mistaking the description." I told myself.My hands were shaking so much as I tried to get a grip of the car door handle but I kept missing, Bridget gripped me and turned me to her."Layla, what's wrong?" I looked into her eyes,I almost couldn't bring myself to say it, to voice the words in my head."The ba... babysitter...the one that came this morning. She has brown hair and her name is Kim. I let an imposter into my house Bridget? With my daughter." I was quaking inside.Bridget eyes widened like she finally got the idea, "Get in, I'll drive"She secured my into the passengers seat
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Ethan's POV Layla held Aria's hand as they walked through the toys section of the mall, happily grabbing everything that caught Aria's eyes. It was good to be free again, to not be watching over our backs. It had been two months since Sedar was finally caught and even know it still felt unreal. He was such a nuisance for so long it was weird with him gone. All the drama we went through because of him. I remember Layla suggesting we go to Nicole out of desperation and frustration and to be honest I was about to give in but I knew good would come of exchanging oke devil for another. We decided to not go that far and I was grateful we didn't, unfortunately even if we wanted to it was too late. Layla got a call from a family about two weeks later that Nicole had ended her own life. The warden said she was constantly screaming to be let out and that someone should call me or Layla but they didn't because that was unreasonable. A while after she hung herself. Layla was frozen to t
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Layal's POV"Okay." Annabeth's weak response came from the other side of the phone. Thank heavens maybe my little speech had knocked some sense into her."Okay? so you'll come stay here right?" "Not yet, I'll stay with a friend for a while. I want to stay with you guys but I can't risk messing up your lives even more." she sounded tired and I decided to let this matter rest for now. "Which friend?, where's Derek?", he had taken her home but he never called back so I guessed he was still with her."He left a while ago."He left?! Could he be any more of an asshole. He comes, drops a bomb like that leaves the two of us in a mess and then just drops her at home to be by herself. What was all the love talk about if this was all he could do. "He left you like this?" I was really starting to direct the anger i fel towards Derek, which obviously wouldn't end well. "It's not like that, i asked him to leave me alone. He kept apologizing when he wasn't at fault and I knew letting him see me
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Layla's POV Watching Annabeth leave felt like my world came crashing down on me. I couldn't believe my eyes when Derek showed me that picture, immediately my mind clicked and made the connection it was like my brain just went into autopilot. It felt like the cinema all over again, realizing that Sedar had been so close to me again, I had been so close to death. I was thankful for Ethan who caught me before I fell, God knows him being there was what helped me calm myself down. Then Annabeth had started her meltdown, I had expected a shocked reaction but not something of that intensity, she looked like we just told her, her entire life was a lie. "Annabeth wait." When I had tried to grab her when she dashed upstairs she basically pushed me away and snatched Cho. My reaction to that was slow, what had I done wrong? I was in as much shock and disorientation she was feeling so why was I the one getting this reaction from her. To be honest I was disappointed that Ethan just stood ther
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Ethan's POVI 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
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Ethan's POVI could hear the noise increasing slowly from downstairs, I had warned Layla this would happen. I tried to ignore it at first but then they had to be shouting for me to be hearing them this clearly. I put my laptop aside, stretched my limbs and walked downstairs. I got there to find Layla, Derek and Annabeth sitting round the dinner table, Layla's eyes were already in my direction by the time I reached them. She had most likely heard me coming. The discomfort they were putting her through was very evident on her face. I was already pretty much irritated, trying to work and being disturb by meaningless quarrel was very annoying. "I warned you." I said in my head as I looked at Layla, I was definitely going to rub this in her face later."You two know you're in another man's house right? A man who's trying to get work done and who has kids upstairs." They both shut and sat frozen with their eyes fixed on me. Personally I would have just kicked them out there and then. I
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Layla's POV"It's nothing really, I just felt like maybe he was right" she waved her hand dismissively."Who?" "Derek", shit what had he said again"What did he say again?" I felt my fist instinctively clench, I was starting to feel like Annabeth was actually right in this. "Again, nah he said it when he brought you over to my place. That you had issues too and I was acting like my man drama was the center of the world." She looked to the side, it was obvious she was hurt by it.That was too much, this had gotten way too much. "Give me a second." I grabbed my phone and marched upstairs."Where are you going?" "I'll be right back." I barged into the room and Ethan looked at me confused."What's gotten into you?" "I'm going to interfere. I'm calling Derek to come over right now so I can settle whatever this is that they have going on." His eyes widened in shock and he shook his head, "Don't Layla. You sure you want to be in the cross hairs of whatever it is they have going on?"
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Layla's POVThe house had been on lockdown for the past two days, yes, because of Sedar and also because Ethan was an overly protective person. Did I like being locked up in here all day? No. Could I do anything about it? Also no. All that could be done was wait it out and pray it needed soon. Ethan also worked from home to keep me company and lessen the agony of my situation. I told him numerous times that he could go to work and I'd just ask Annabeth to come over but I guess he saw through that lie. I was just looking for a way to get him out of the house so I could sneak out. His maid, America brought us all of the groceries and supplies we needed so there was no way to use needing to go shopping as an excuse. It was nice to be cared for but this was pretty much the same feeling that made me move out in the first place, unfortunately this time that wasn't an option."What is on your mind?" Ethan asked, this question snapped me back into the reality, I looked around, yep still stu
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Ethan's POVI watched her step into Derek's car and drive off, I didn't exactly like the idea of her being out in the open after seeing Sedar stalking us but there was no winning an argument with Layla, the best I could do was give her a curfew to be back home. I called Lucas when she left, she was right about us needing to find the leak in our whereabouts that Sedar was tracking is with. "Didn't we just get off the phone?" He said sarcastically."I'm calling about Sedar. Again." "Did he show up again?" "No, but you remember how we talked about finding out how he knew where we were. Well Layla has a theory about it, she thinks it has something to do with Annabeth. Apparently all the times Sedar has showed up unexpectedly were when she went to places she'd already told Annabeth she was going to." "Was Annabeth the only one she told? That's a pretty wild assumption." He sounded skeptical, which was reasonable. Even I thought it was a shaky suspicion."No but she's the only common p
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Layla's POV "What do you want me to say. Oh hey don't date whoever that creep is. I love you. Is that it?" I just stared at him, what the heck was that? So what he loved her now?. He stared back at me like a moron and then his expression softened and I took as a sign he realized he'd just lashed out at the wrong person."I am sorry." He did his puppy dog eyes look."I'd love to say it's fine but it's nothing, you two really need to take a minute and sit down to talk." The rest of the ride was absolutely silence, he walked me to the door and kept apologizing for the way he acted but all I did was nod. "What happened between you two?" Ethan saw the look on my face when I stepped in."More like what the heck is happening between two of them" I threw my bag on the couch and fell into his arms "Who are we talking about right now?" "Derek and Annabeth." "Oh, those two. Wait, they're still at it? I thought it would be over by now. Aren't they taken it a bit too far?" Even Ethan notice
