Ethan's POV
The room was silent. Painfully silent.
I stood in the doorway, unable to move, unable to look away from the small distance between my father and Aria — a distance that told me everything the silence wouldn't.
I already knew. I'd known since the night the bond first tore loose in my chest, since the moment I'd felt something of my father's presence tangled up in what should have only ever been mine and Aria's. I'd spent days telling myself I was wrong. Standing here now, I couldn't tell myself that anymore.
"What is going on?" My voice came out rougher than I meant it to.
Nobody answered. Lucas looked uncomfortable. Aria looked pale. And my father — my father looked guilty. I had never once seen Alpha Damien Thorn look guilty. That frightened me more than anything else in t
