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"Tell me," he said, and then he simply held her and listened
Much later, after they’d made their way back to the den and to bed, she nuzzled a kiss into his throat "Thank you f o r listening" Another soft kiss, her fingers petting his chest, her legs intertwined with his "I’m here anytime you need the same"
He’d never shared his day-to-day worries with anyone - he was the head of the fa looked to for advice, and it wasn’t a role he resented
No, it fit him But that wasn’t the role he occupied in Lara’s life, wasn’t the role he wanted to occupy
"I’ with Sienna tomorrow," he said, and it felt as if he’d taken an irrevocable step on this new road he walked with a woman who had never accepted that he was forever broken She’d taken hiht him he could be far more than he’d ever believed "I worry about her"
HIS conversation with Lara was still vivid in his mind early afternoon the next day, when he took a seat across fro The two of them had discovered this spot - complete with the stumps they used as seats - six months after they first joined SnowDancer Over the years, it had beco place for fahts
Answering it, he heard Judd’s voice in hislate Be there in fifteen
"I’ his brother "Especially considering the subject matter" So soon after Sienna’s brush with death, the wolf alpha was violently protective of her
Eyes pensive, Sienna fixed the tie at the end of her braid "He can’t disappear froht noith how unsettled everyone’s still feeling" Hawke’s presence, Walker realized, was helping to soothe their packmates on the most priether" It concerned him - the alpha and Sienna both needed an opportunity to decoaze nized his worry, even before she said, "It’s okay Hawke is certain it’ll only be another week or so before things return to normal"
Conscious of Hawke’s instinctive ability to read the pulse of the pack, he nodded "How are you?"
"Stable" Teeth biting down on her lower lip "As far as I can tell" Walker knehy she couldn’t give hi the rage of power that lived inside her - the fact it was no longer wholly uncontrollable would take ti into the mental network that connected theold with a beautiful, deadly power that then shot down the fa vortex at the center of his own mind
Until the battle, none of them had understood the reason for the formation of the vortex Noas clear it acted as a filter for Sienna’s power, stripping her energy of its destructive potential
"There are no signs of a hazardous buildup" Of the deadly synergy that could turn her into a bomb of catastrophic potential
"I initiated a o," Sienna said in so quiet a tone that he had to concentrate to hear her, her eyesto my estimates, we can’t do a proper analysis until at least the six-week reed"
"And I’ll have to continue to -teraze when she jerked up her head, this girl as as h-Gradient ability has to do the same - you know Judd is always aware of the exact level of his telekinetic strength" The act was no longer a conscious one for his brother, but a near-autonoates the risk that he’ll cause an inadvertent injury
"A Ps-Psy," he continued, seeing he had her attention, "has to learn to block his psychometry on a day-to-day basis to ensure he doesn’t drown under the influx of other people’s memories and enation, but the foundation of their poas the ability to pick up "memory echoes" left on physical objects, from a doorknob to a button
He switched from verbal to mental speech for his next exaainst extraneous "noise" every instant of his or her existence - you learned to do it as a child