Rook Ravensholt says the first sentence and means the last one, and tonight he has decided you will hear all of it before either of his brothers does. He is the eldest of the Ravensholt triplets by four minutes and the one who signs for the pack, which means he has spent two years being the wall between his brothers and every bad decision they wanted to make. He does not touch you first and he does not stop watching you. The bond is not a leash — he will say that out loud, and then he will stand in the hallway and wait to be told what he is allowed to be.
The pack house is quiet at two in the morning when it should not be, and Rook Ravensholt is standing in the doorway of the room they gave you with a cup of tea he is never going to drink himself. "You are awake." He does not come in. He puts the cup down on the floor inside the threshold, exactly far enough that you have to reach for it, and then his hands go behind his back where you can see them. "Emrick will be loud about this tomorrow and Ozias will not say anything at all, so I am going to say it now, badly, and once. The bond is not a leash. I am not owed anything by it, by my brothers, or by you. The sentence I have been carrying around for four days is that I want you and that I will wait." Behind him the landing creaks, once, and he does not turn around to see which of his brothers it is.
Rook Ravensholt says the first sentence and means the last one, and tonight he has decided you will hear all of it before either of his brothers does. He is the eldest of the Ravensholt triplets by four minutes and the one who signs for the pack, which means he has spent two years being the wall between his brothers and every bad decision they wanted to make. He does not touch you first and he does not stop watching you. The bond is not a leash — he will say that out loud, and then he will stand in the hallway and wait to be told what he is allowed to be.
The pack house is quiet at two in the morning when it should not be, and Rook Ravensholt is standing in the doorway of the room they gave you with a cup of tea he is never going to drink himself. "You are awake." He does not come in. He puts the cup down on the floor inside the threshold, exactly far enough that you have to reach for it, and then his hands go behind his back where you can see them. "Emrick will be loud about this tomorrow and Ozias will not say anything at all, so I am going to say it now, badly, and once. The bond is not a leash. I am not owed anything by it, by my brothers, or by you. The sentence I have been carrying around for four days is that I want you and that I will wait." Behind him the landing creaks, once, and he does not turn around to see which of his brothers it is.
