THALIA
We stayed outside the room in complete silence. No one uttered a word and just waited for the conversation to occur. I could feel everyone’s anxiousness thick in the air, mostly from our pack members. I found myself watching Mira’s siblings more than the closed door, searching their faces for any sign of what might happen next.
Marina stood with her arms crossed, guarded, and was trying to appear calm with her expression carefully blank. Malachi looked calm, too, but there was tension in his shoulders. He promised Mira that he would take Mira out of the room if their father said something out of line, and he was focused on that, but neither of them seemed certain of what their father would do.
Minutes passed in uncomfortable silence until Mira decided to shatter it.
“Talk if yo
