The Brutal Alpha's Tender Daughter novel Chapter 13

My heart hurt for my brother.

As soon as Levin noticed my tears, guilt was apparent in his eyes.

"I'm sorry, I....I should've explained this to you differently."

He gently wiped the tears off of my face and kissed my forehead. The tingles spread through me and I calmed a bit.

"Silas stayed because of you Sophia, but not because you were an obligation, but because you were his home. And he could not find somwhere new he could call home, when home was you."

I smiled at Levin's wording, but he could see that I was not convinced.

"You were all he talked about and how special you were. So when he saved my life I promised him to do anything he wanted me to do and the first thing he thought about was you. Silas made me promise to get you out of here and once he's finished here, he'll follow."

A cold shiver ran down my back when I heard Levin's last sentence.

"What does this mean?"

"He wants to start a new life with you Sophia and I'm going to help you."

My gaze pleaded with him to tell me more about his plan, but I knew he would not and that my room was not a safe place to discuss this.

Levin suddenly sounded guilty when he told me "I know that this seems really unfair, and I really don't know how to put it, but your brother has missed you a lot and therefore he has told me a lot about you."

Confused as to what Levin meant I starred at him. How was Silas talking about me a bad thing?

My mate winced and slowly said "I know that this is something that should've come from you, when you would've trusted me enough to share it with me, but Silas already told me to protect you."

My eyes widened, because I realized that Levin knew.

Levin knew that I was a highly sensitive person and everything that accompanied it.

It did not matter that I had often talked with Dr. Clairence about it and how hard I had worked on accepting it, my cheeks flushed because of shame and I lowered my head.

Levin was right.

I would have liked to spend more time with him and get to know him.

I would have liked to tell him myself and be sure about trusting him with this.

However, he already knew and even worse, I did not even know what he exactly knew.

Did he knew about how life was for a highly sensitive person?

Did he not realize that once his pack found out, and this was bound to happen, that they would not accept me?

Who would want a Luna, who was more occupied with surviving each day than making sure the pack was alright?

Levin had to have noticed my bewilderment and a smile appeared on his lips.

"I'm going to convince you Sophia!"

One moment I could see my mate right in front of me and the next his lips were on mine.

I had never been kissed before and display of affection was not something you would see often in the Mercy pack, so I had no idea how to respond.

My eyes were wide open and not even the tingles could calm my racing heart.

Levin then pulled back and a look of hurt crossed over his facial features.

Instantly I started to apologize "I'm sorry, I've never kissed anyone before, I don't know what to do."

My cheeks heated because of my confession, but when I saw the satisfaction in Levin's eyes, I realized that I had said exactly the right thing.