“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 ...