She didn't answer.
I waited.
She kept her eyes on that fixed point and her body was very still in my arms and she didn't say a word.
I didn't push. I'd asked once and she'd heard me and whatever was stopping her from answering was something I was going to understand better when I knew more about how this pack worked and what the consequences of speaking had cost her in the past. A girl who'd spent five years in that shack had learned that words had prices. I wasn't going to make her pay one she hadn't agreed to yet.
I looked back at Rodan.
He was watching me with the expression of a man who had run every calculation available to him and found that none of them led anywhere good.
I shifted my hold slightly to look at Isla's ankle properly in the daylight. The burn was a complete ring
