“Okay," I nodded. “I can understand that." There were a lot of things that I needed to learn about his world, and maybe the first thing shouldn't be what was obviously the bone of contention between us. It was just surprising to me to learn that these creatures, and especially Alphas, seemed to have these incredible abilities, yet also seemed to have incredible weaknesses. I had the feeling that it was going to come up again, that we would have to address this issue at one point or another, but right then was not that time. I wasn't offended by it either way; this was only our first conversation that didn't include accusations, insults, and screaming. It was already a win in my book. I didn't see us becoming lovers. But maybe there was a way that we could make this a little more bearab

