Pregnant For My Father-in-Law
Dax nodded once but he did not continue immediately.
I looked at him and understood.
This was not the only reason he had called them here.
His fingers tightened slightly on the table, and something in his face shifted, not enough for everyone to see perhaps, but I saw it.
The same hesitation from last night and that same weight. He wanted to say something else. Not about spies or Jasper only. Something that had been sitting between these siblings for years, gathering dust and bitterness and old grief.
He wanted to apologize to Asher, maybe to all of them, but the words were not coming easily because Dax was not a man trained for apology. He was trained for command, protection, punishment and