"I know you think I'm an asshole. But I'm not a mean man. If I'd wanted to, I could have carried you off. Left the kids to starve, with no one to take care of them. But I didn't! I brought you home. Do you think any other man who took a fancy to you would have done that? Women are scarce. They get dragged off all the time, their husbands killed, children slaughtered, or left to starve and die in the cold. I want to do right by you Alex. I'm willing to take on the burden of caring for you and the children."
But you are a far cry from the romantic hero we want to see in a romance!
