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#Chapter75 Time
/"There really isn't any hope for us, is there? Colton cutting me off, all of this, it's to protect me … he's going to mark Carmen and that's going to be the end of it. I can feel it in my bones. Whether he loves me or not, his duty, his reason, his stubborn nature, all point at doing what's expected, because he thinks it will be a resolution that secures the pack's future. And he cares about that more than about us./" As much as I go around in circles in my head, I can't see any other outcome.
As much as I want him to be strong for me, it's not really about that. He is strong, he just cares too much about the people he's meant to care about. Alpha's in his blood and putting the people first is part of that leading nature of his type. As much as his gifts, his personality, his looks, and his DNA, he's programmed with this preset need to be bound to his duty for them.