Layla’s POV
“ I saw Chloe”
The rising panic hung between us while I waited for her reply, Ariel didn’t say a word, she just fixed her attention on the burning flame, like I didn’t utter a word.
“Chloe, when we were about to come here, I saw her around the crowd, I think she’s hiding” my desperation had the best of me, as I tried to make her hear what I had just said, “ Ariel are you listening to me?, Ariel”
“I can hear you clearly my dear, you might be seeing things” her words deflated me in so many ways than normal, I wasn’t seeing things and I was sure of it, but no one saw what I saw, so might as well be seeing things.
A shredded gut feeling had me searching the dim cave for some source of validation, Rome wasn’t anywhere close by, there was just one person aside from Rome who
