My heart felt like it was breaking for Zaine hearing him share those words. What must he be going through within his mind to be thinking like that? I knew his mind did not process things the same as my own, but this was crushing. No man should be left feeling like this. Especially not him. He had Alpha blood running through him. He was expected to be strong, so I knew how hard he battled with this feeling of not being strong enough...
“You are not weak.” I tried hard to reassure him. “None of what you are feeling is weakness.”
I turned to look at him as I spoke and watched as his handsome features twisted into a grimace, like my words meant nothing. Like he did not believe a word that I said. This was not the first time I had had to tell him this, and I doubted it would be the last. Yet
