Chapter 25: Truth Between the Silence
The cabin’s wooden floors creaked softly beneath Heacetana’s feet as she paced back and forth in the guest room, her pulse fluttering like a trapped bird in her chest. The blush that had stormed her cheeks hadn’t faded, not even after ten full minutes of splashing her face with cold water. Her skin was still burning. From the heat of the steam. From the sight of Elijah.
From the way he looked at her—no, not Elijah.
Max.
His wolf had seen her.
And he hadn’t looked away.
She pressed her palms to her cheeks and groaned into them. “What is wrong with me?”
But deep down, she knew the answer. It wasn’t wrongness. It was want. A pull that had grown deeper, tighter, every day since she woke up in the hospital. This magnetic force between them was no longer gentle or subtle—it was growing teeth.
She turned away from the door, only to stop short.