~ SASHA ~
Of all the things she'd seen from Zev since he showed up again, this was the moment that worried her most.
To be fair, the neck snapping ran a very close second.
But as she sat there questioning him, she watched Zev go pale. His hands shook first, then the rest of him began to twitch. He gripped her hand so tightly she was starting to lose blood flow. And he wasn't even conscious of it, she was sure.
"Zev?" she asked, rubbing his arm with her free hand. "Are you okay?"
"I didn't know," he mumbled. "Not at first. And once I did… I stopped. I mean, it took me some time to accept it, but once I realized… I didn't know, Sash, you have to believe me."
"I believe you... What are you talking about?"
Zev closed his eyes and let his head sink back against the rock behind them, his face twisted in a grimace that rang her heart like a bell.
