Lana's POV.
I stood there, letting him talk.
That’s the honest truth, the version I’d only ever confess to myself, right here in the quiet of my own thoughts, while the fluorescent lights buzzed their indifferent tune above us and Asher’s voice filled the lab with a warmth I hadn’t heard from him before. He was generous with it, expansive in a way that felt a bit outside the usual framework of the man I’d come to know over these weeks, the man who measured his words as carefully as I measured compounds, with precision and full awareness of their impact.
“The best doctor in the world.” He said calmly.
He didn't just call me the best doctor in the pack or the most capable physician he’d met in the world. He said it with the kind of conviction you only see in someone who’s just witnessed
