POV: Kaelira
Ronan's face did something I had never seen it do before.
Not shock, I had expected shock, but what crossed his face when I said the name was quieter and more complicated than shock, the expression of a man who had been carrying a question he was too afraid to ask out loud for a very long time and had just heard someone else confirm it.
He did not speak for a long moment.
"Ronan," I said carefully.
"I heard you.”
"Say something."
He stood up slowly and walked to the window and stood there with his back to me, and I waited because I had learned that pushing him in moments like this only made him take longer.
"I stood in that room with you last night," he said finally, still facing the window, "I heard everything Sera said, and while she was talking I kept waiting for a
