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Kian's POV

Seeing her cry really broke me. It was not my intention at all to hurt her. I really wanted to give her an answer when she asked if she would ever be part of my pack, but I really did not know what to say to her.

Of course she was a part of me, as well as my pack, but I was held back by so many lingering feelings of doubt, because of the issue with my mum’s vase. I didn’t know if it was safe to trust her again. Although that didn’t mean I didn’t care for her.

The only thing I could offer, and it came to me without a single prior thought—just an unconscious, involuntary action, was to hug her.

I did not want to tell her about the rogue attacks, primarily because I did not want to have her worried about it. But she had the idea that it was mainly because I didn't trust her.

I didn’t know what to do to make her feel better, before Lessia I had never been close enough to any woman. I was new at this.

The hurt was in the part that I actually wasn't convinced, within myself, th