#Chapter 39: The Idea

Third Person POV Asher had no idea how he was supposed to feel. There he sat in the waiting room, his nerves on the edge, waiting for Sienna. The Elder’s wouldn’t have called her there if it weren’t something very important — and with all the things Mia had stacked up against Sienna, it was sure to lean on the much more negative side. Sienna’s major inspection wasn’t for another few months, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t warn her. He thrummed his fingers on his knee, a half hour passing before he heard the doors open, his attention snapping up. Sienna did not look happy. Not one bit. Oh dear. He knew better than to ask what happened right then. Within a second, he stood, placed right at her side, and followed her out of the building. When they were hardly ten feet away, she burst out crying. “Hey,” he whispered, guiding her to a bench a little further away, wanting to be out of sight of anyone in the Council. S