Seeing the vivid reaction on the face of the boy he had befriended, the man he considered a brother, moved Dante. Tristan had always been a blank slate, one of the reasons Dante truly enjoyed provoking a reaction out of him. But the Tristan who stood before him then wasn't the man who didn't give a fuck about the world; it was the boy who had made a mistake and paid the unreasonable price for it. And seeing him like that made Dante's own eyes burn.
There was no one in the world who deserved this more than Tristan.
Fuck, pawn or not, the fact that she'd come back and filled the huge, gaping hole that had always been in his friend's life alone had his gratitude.
He watched as Tristan stepped inside, scanning the room and Dante almost told him to look left, but stopped. This washismoment. Nothing else needed to exist.
He saw the exact moment Tristan's eyes landed on her. To anyone else, it would look like he froze out of shock, but to Dante, who had worked and learned his body language for years, it wasn't freezing. Tristan was moving on the inside, his body locked into place so his emotions didn't scatter everywhere all around him.
Dante almost stepped outside, wanting to give them both privacy in the moment, but his protectiveness of the younger man didn't let him move. He didn't think she would harm Tristan—he had seen assassins, and she was the farthest thing from one he could find—and he didn't want tonottrust her, but until he knew her better, it was better to be safe than sorry.
Tristan walked to her and sank down on his knees.
"Is she…?" Morana's words drowned out as she came to stand next to Dante, a phone in her hand with the navigation screen still lit, her eyes immediately finding Tristan and his sister on the side.
A gasp left Morana as she looked at the scene, her eyes tearing up and her hand coming up to her mouth. Dante pulled her into his side, rubbing her shoulder.
Alpha came to stand with them silently, exchanging a nod with Dante, taking in the scene.
No words were spoken by any of them.
They stood there like that, siblings of the heart, watching siblings of the blood be reunited after twenty years.