She didn’t take it well.
His Alpha appreciated the fact that he listened to himself and urged her to get it out for both of their sake, but it didn’t work the way he thought it would. He watched her revert back into her old ways. She seemed to shrink back into herself. What his Alpha could sense of her, hid from him.
“That’s a lot to put on me,” she finally said.
It shook him. There were seldom times she couldn’t tell him anything. In the beginning, when they first met, she could handle her own. She grew up not needing anyone. Not because she wanted to, but because she was forced to. He was in awe of her.
Shane remembered she had a campfire on the beach, a bucket of clams from Mile Five’s lagoon. It was far shallower there with the giants in the distance. Her surfboard, the one she
