Nikolai's POV
"What did you say?"
"Yes. Thank you," she repeats as if it's they are the only words she knows. I want to keep her talking, but the hoarseness in her voice tells me she either hasn't spoken for a while or that when she started to talk, it was difficult for her to do so and it must have put a big strain on her vocal chords.
What my brain can't seem to catch up on right now is the fact that she spoke and my mouth and mind returned to what her old pack claimed ... that she was deaf and didn't speak. I mean I already knew it was bullshit on the deafness to begin with but to hear her speak ... to me ... when she didn't have to. When she could have played the cards at her own expense, or how she could have made me wait or even worse ... she could have stayed mute and kept the pr
