Cassian POV

“Well? Are you just going to stand there?”

Her voice cracked through my trance like a whip.

I blinked, jolted back to myself. She stood there with her arms folded, eyes locked on mine, like I’d made her wait too long.

“I… I thought you were I was just” The words stumbled out of me, ragged and clumsy. I hadn’t been prepared for this.

She laughed, soft and amused, but there was something threaded through it that curled low in my gut. “Now that my family’s ...