Asher’s Point of View
As I watched Talia disappear from my sight, my heart was still pounding in my chest. She was safe here. She would be safe upstairs in my room. She was safe now. But no matter how many times I drilled that thought through my head, my wolf was still being a huge nuisance, constantly itching at me to go check on her. She’d hardly been upstairs 5 minutes, not even long enough for Ryland and I to get back to the study and pour ourselves a drink. After tonight, god did I need it.
I was doubtful she would have even made it to bed by now, I couldn’t go check on her already without being a total paranoid weirdo. Was this what being a mated man was going to be like? Was it turning me into some over paranoid i***t already? I groaned, running my hand over my head and forcing m
