Evaline:
My question landed between us like a stone dropped into still water.
I watched as Elion's pen halted midair, hovering just above the paper he was about to sign.
For a brief, stretched-out second, nothing moved.
Then he looked up.
Not sharply. Not defensively.
Just… confused.
His brows drew together slightly as his eyes fixed on my face, studying me in a way that felt far more searching than accusatory. It was the kind of look one gave when trying to decide whether they had misheard... or whether the other person knew something they didn't.
And in that moment, I knew.
When he had told me before that the Silver Wolf bloodline's healing power was its deepest secret, he hadn't been hiding anything else from me.
If he had known of another power... another buried truth... his reaction would have been different. There would have been tension. Shock. Guarded calculation.
Instead, there was only genuine confusion.
