Athena wasn't sure how to feel.
Yes, she could hear Aiden and Spider distinctly, present more facts, more information that pointed that Herbert was the wicked person they had been looking for all this while, yet she just couldn't comprehend it clearly.
Even while they had been in the car, she had just been going through the motions, unable to wait to get home so that she could disentangle the threads with her grandparents.
Herbert? Behind the death of Ewan's parents? Moreso, the threats that had pushed Ewan to join the gang in the first place? How? Why? And he was right beneath their noses!
How couldn't she have seen it? How could they not have known? Yet how could they have? Herbert was… Herbert.
Athena's musings caused creases to batter her forehead. Her brows drew together tightly, her fingers unconsciously tugging at the hem of her sleeve.
Her eyes darted to Zane. He looked just as wrapped in shock, like Ewan.
