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Dimitri:I found Alina sitting in front of the window when I walked into the bedroom. She’d pulled a chair close to the glass, legs tucked beneath her, staring out at the darkening grounds as if the world beyond the panes might answer the questions she wouldn’t ask aloud.The room was quiet, but it wasn’t the comfortable silence we shared most nights. This silence had weight to it, heavy enough that I felt it through the bond before I even closed the door.She knew I was there, she simply didn’t turn around. My wolf shifted under my skin. She is still hurt.“I know,” I said, softer than I’d meant to.There was no edge in my voice this time. I’d spent the evening fighting, Mikhail over tactics, Anya over her stubbornness, Nikita over a locked door, and somewhere between trying to keep everyone safe and trying to understand what Asher was doing, I’d managed to hurt the one person I’d been trying hardest to protect.I walked toward her slowly. She didn’t move when I stopped behind the ch

Asher:By the time evening settled over the territory, Nikita still hadn’t called.At first I told myself it didn’t matter. She was angry with me, she’d made that perfectly clear. Even after agreeing to give me another chance, she’d warned me she wasn’t going to forget everything just because I apologized and sent flowers. Fine. I could work with anger. I could handle a woman who kept her boundaries.What I couldn’t handle was silence. She should have called by now, I knew that she would have done so on normal occasions.I sat behind my desk and stared at my phone longer than I cared to admit before finally setting it face down on the wood. Nothing. No message, no missed call, not even a sarcastic text telling me she was busy and I needed to stop expecting her attention on demand. That bothered me more than it should have.Daren noticed. Of course he noticed.“You’re going to burn a hole through that phone if you keep staring at it,” he said, amusement in his voice. “And it is still n