“You’re not gonna go all alpha on me like Josh did with Nicole?” I tease. He pauses for a moment, as if to carefully practice the words he wants to say. “That’s not the dynamic I want our relationship to have. It might work for them, but it doesn’t work for me. I’ve lived a lifetime’s worth of violence, and in the last few years, I’ve worked very hard to build something different. Something away from my father and his organization.”
