JASON
Her words drilled into me harder than any Alpha Council interrogation ever could. She was just staring at me with those eyes that stripped me bare faster than claws to skin. And I hated it. I hated that I couldn’t lie to her, not when she was looking at me like that.
I pulled in a breath. “You want the truth? Fine.” I propped myself up on an elbow, looking down at her, hair messy around her face, sheets clinging to her skin. She was too damn beautiful for me to ever deserve, and too stubborn for me to keep locked out anymore.
“The fire didn’t touch me because it can’t. Nothing like that can. Not since I was a kid. Not since…” My jaw locked, teeth grinding as the memories came flooding back, the smoke, the screaming, the sound of my father’s voice as he tore our house apart with h
