Avoid drama.

(Anna’s Pov)

As I stared at Asher, I grew increasingly nauseated. Why was he so silent? Say something! Anything! Oh Goddess, just freaking---dammit!

Like a fish out of water, in a bid to break the tension cranking high in the room, I opened and closed my mouth a couple of times and only a sigh just escaped.

Finally, Asher took pity on me and cleared his throat. "I'd been shot yesterday and while it took me down for a couple hours, I didn't lose my brain, Anna Kendra." He stopped looking out the window and suddenly turned those piercing emeralds on me. "It was Black Rose with me yesterday, she and my beta brought me to the hospital. You had gone to a conference with your "boss" whom I'd never met, how and why are you here right now in the same dress she was in yesterday?

A lump formed in my throat and I licked my lips over and over again, trying to find my wits that were fried from the burning intensity of his gaze. "Asher..." I trailed and somehow the sick feeling in my stomach twist