Chapter 94

As much as I want him to be strong for me, it’s not really about that. He is strong; he just cares too much about the people he’s meant to care about. Alpha’s in his blood, and putting the people first is part of that leading nature of his type. As much as his gifts, personality, looks, and DNA, he’s programmed with this preset need to be bound to his duty for them. He faces all these paths and possibilities and, even if he chooses me over all of them, he fears his father will either take me from him, and I don’t doubt he would, or that I’ll be so damaged by life as his Luna, that he’ll scar my mind in the process and lose me in other ways. I need to face facts. Seeing how Juan’s been treating his kind these past days has sickened me to my stomach, and I need to start putting myself first. Colton won’t endanger me with the possibility his father will snatch me from him. I think he has more faith in my ability to be mentally strong, though, although it’s not that clear cut in his head,