I’d told Elise I’d loved her because I did. Mamma had taught me to ‘non mentire mai con il tuo cuore’. Never lie with your heart. My emotions didn’t make me any less of an Alpha or any less of a man. And it didn’t matter to me whether Elise felt the same way. I loved her, and I was going to continue loving her so long as my heart deemed fit. So that was all there was to it.
Fire.
