Leila’s POV:
I keep my eyes on Ash when he doesn’t speak. Hoping that maybe he’ll explain what I asked. But the silence stretches. Longer and longer until I don’t think he’ll tell me. I say anything at all.
But eventually, he does. “Are you sure you want to know Lei?” His voice is laced with pain and I can hear Luna’s howl in my head in response to the wild, unbridled pain in those golden eyes that seem to be shadowed by a sorrow too heavy for one person to bear alone. “The last thing I want to do is hurt you” He spares me a pleading look and I feel my conviction waver for just a second before something inside me snaps and I sigh.
“I know that,” I reply softly, seeing a fragile flicker of hope blossom in his expression before I sigh again and place a hand over his “but I think whatever
