How to make husky await for result of promise in pre-commit hook script?

I have a simple pre-commit hook that asks the user for input and then updates the package version number. I need this pre-commit script to complete before husky finishes.

const { exec } = require('child_process');
const inquirer = require('inquirer');
 
const question = {
  type: 'list',
  name: 'version',
  message: 'Semantic Version?',
  choices: ['Patch', 'Minor', 'Major'],
  filter(val) {
    return val.toLowerCase();
  },
};

const selectVersion = async () => {
  const version = await inquirer.prompt(question);
  exec(`npm version ${version}`);
}

selectVersion();

"scripts": {
  "version:select": "node ./scripts/versionSelect.js"
},

I get prompted to input my answer but the commmit hook finishes too quickly so I am unable to interact with my question prompt as you can see here: