Stealing Alpha's Heart
Ryder said, as if he weren't talking to me in particular, "I felt something inside of me pulling me toward you and I wanted to be close to you. That's why I offered you my shoulder after Dawn died.
"But contrary to your belief, most pack members see me as a cruel, tough Alpha. It's hard, you know, really hard to keep up my physique when, really with all this stress weighing down on me, I just want to break down and cry, but I can't. Finding out all these secrets with me, my real mother is dead, I have a secret, possibly an evil brother, and I have mind powers, I just can't take it and be a stone cold Alpha on top of it!" I didn't trust myself to speak from the tears that were choking my word