QUOTE : I narrowed my eyes at him. “Is this why you come down here? So you can ask me questions and report back to your Alphas? Did they send you down here to dig for information?”<br /><br />He shrugged. “Yes. But that’s not all it is. I want to see you as much as I can. I want to touch you. I want to lay my head in your lap and have your hand in my hair. I want you to smile at me like you know me. Like I’m the only thing you see.”<br /><br />“Don’t,” I said hoarsely. “Just… don’t.”<br /><br />He looked down at his hands.<br /><br />“I don’t know you.”<br /><br />“I know.”<br /><br />“I don’t want to.”<br /><br />“I know that too.”<br /><br />“Then why?” I demanded. “Why are you—”<br /><br />His head snapped up. “Because I love you. And I never forgot you. Even when everything was fucked-up, even when it all turned to shit and blood was spilled, I did everything I could.