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, his personality, his looks, and his 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...