Chapter 93: A Daughter's Power
(Aspen's POV)
The waiting area outside the treatment room felt as cold and lifeless as stone. The sharp scent of antiseptics and healing herbs filled the air, clashing with the tension so thick it seemed to smother every breath anyone dared to take.
Ethan was behind those heavy steel doors, undergoing an advanced healing ritual under the hands of Michael Rivers and the elite healers Marcus had summoned from the Northern Territory. The severity of his injuries sat like a weight on all of us—visible in the stiff lines of Nathan’s shoulders, the worry etched into Serena’s pale face, and Marcus’s tightly clenched jaw.
Serena had been leaning against Marcus, her posture weak and trembling. She looked up at me, her amber eyes glassy from exhaustion, her aur
