the island. Lucas didn?t know if he had a touch of his little sister?s
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talent or not, but he just knew that if Helen left him then, he might
lose her forever.
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Chapter Seventeen
Creon stood along the side of the compound, entirely
cloaked in shadows, and waited until his cousins sped off
in their black SUV before he ran after them. He could easily
keep pace with the moving car, and as long as he
stayed inside a cloud of darkness, he could depend on the
dreary weather to keep him perfectly hidden. No other Scion for
hundreds of years had Creon?s control over light, and on a cloudy
day not even another Son of Apollo could see him.
Creon had followed Hector and Jason back to the compound
from Helen?s place that morning. Having nothing else to go on, he
decided the best thing to do would be to eavesdrop on his estranged
family. His father had told him about the shape-shifting
qualities of the cestus, and he knew that he had no other choice but
to wait for his quarry to reveal herself. He guessed that eventually
she would make contact with the traitors, and he had been right.
Now all he had to do was follow them and trust that eventually his
cousins would lead him right to her.
Helen looked out the window of the hotel, searching the nearly
empty street below, but she didn?t see Lucas anywhere. She?d
hoped to see him one last time before she left, even if he didn?t see
her. It was little enough to hope for, but apparently, little was still