Contracted For The Alpha
Stroking her hair again, he said, “I don’t know what that is, baby.”
Natalie’s heart ached for him.
He was telling the truth—he didn’t know what it was. He had never had any real examples of love in his life, and he was convinced from the things he had done and was capable of doing that he wouldn’t be able to feel an emotion like that. He’d only been a child when he’d closed himself off. A child who didn’t want his uncle’s words or treatment to be able to hurt him anymore.
Closing himself off so early like that had stunted his development, and he was, in a way, emotionally immature. It was that which was stopping him from untangling that knot.
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