Lana's POV.
The words hung in the air between us, heavy and unyielding.
I watched Asher as he absorbed them not with the dramatic unraveling that a lesser man might have displayed, but with that unique stillness of his. It wasn’t a void; it was more like a gathering storm. He was processing it all, sorting through the information in that meticulous mind behind those careful eyes. Over the weeks since I’d joined this pack, I’d come to realize that Asher’s silences were anything but empty. They were the most bustling spaces in any room he entered.
“Can you explain that?” he finally asked.
So, I did.
I laid it all out for him as if I were presenting to a medical board devoid of emotion, without any embellishments, just the stark facts illuminated under the harsh fluorescent lights. The c
