She didn't sit. She stood in the middle of his office looking at the map on the wall, at the desk, at the window, anywhere that wasn't him, and he went back to his desk and sat and watched her not look at him and understood what he was seeing.
The way she was holding herself slightly too still. The way her hand came up once toward her throat and dropped before it reached there. She felt the bond....even without a wolf she felt it, and it was overwhelming her, and she didn't know what to do with that. He knew exactly what it was because Kael was doing the same thing on his side of it, barely breathing, terrified that one wrong move would send her back down the corridor.
"Is there anything you need, Lilith," he said.
She looked at the map. "Wren called," she said. "About the post." A pause. "It's spread further. More forums. Someone is pushing it deliberately across multiple networks....it's not organic." Another breath, measured and careful.
