Sebastian~
"Tiger," I growled, barely reining in the crackle beneath my skin. "Please. Just give it to me straight. Where. Is. Zane?"
He didn't flinch. Didn't blink. Didn't move an inch.
I asked again—louder this time, my voice slicing through the quiet between us. I stepped in, close enough to catch the scent of damp soil and tree bark curling from his skin. That wild, rooted scent he always carried like some forest-born sentinel.
But still—nothing.
Tiger just stood there.
Unmoving. Unshaken.
Like a living statue carved from ancient wood and quiet defiance. A tree that refused to bend, no matter how loud the wind screamed.
I could've screamed myself.
"Tiger," I tried again, quieter now, my voice threaded with a lethal kind of calm. "Tell me where Zane is. Now."
His gaze didn't even flicker.
The silence around him was so thick, it felt like the room itself was holding its breath.
Fine.
