Chapter 281

• I expect him to say something comforting, to tell me I’m wrong, that I am enough. But he doesn’t. Instead, he just sits there, letting the silence wrap around us.
• “I get it,” he finally says after a moment. “You think I don’t feel that way, too? Like I’m not enough? Hell, I’ve spent most of my life thinking people would reject me for who I am. Not just because I’m an alpha, but because of… everything else.”
• My eyebrows pinch together. “Everything else?”