Chapter 229: "You're what you say you are."

Roman’s pov.

Scarlett comes to find me later and from the look on her face, I can tell she’s wondering about it too.

I sigh when she comes to me and sits in my lap. She places her head on my chest and we sit in silence. A silence that chokes me, but not in the way that kills.

My words come out in a low confused rumble, “I’m… not a monster Scarlett. I’d never hurt you.”

I can feel confusion muddling up my thoughts and my wife raises her head to stare at me.

I look into brown eyes and I feel emotions filter through the mate bond.

I feel her love for me.

I feel it warm and bright.

She doesn’t need to say anything, yet I already know she does not see me as a monster.

“You don’t see yourself as a monster too, Roman. You’re not a monster.”

She smiles at me and my heart quivers in the way only she can make it quiver. Feeling emotions has never been my strength, but with Scarlett, it comes naturally.

The pride and coldness of my Alpha status roll off me in the presence of this woman and I sta