Esme
She smiled right at Jace now, she’d gotten in all that really needed to be said to this Alpha, about the situation he was in and that he wasn’t going to get what he wanted. But whether he opened his ears and actively listened to her was another matter altogether.
But from the annoyed, boarding on angry look on his face, she didn’t think he was going to absorb her words. It wasn’t love anymore for this man, because if it was, he’d listen to her. Understand what she was telling him between the lines. Which was, in fact, what Nora herself had said to her in the nightclub.
It may have been in the very beginning, regret, and wanting to right the wrong he’d done, but two decades of not finding the woman he was looking for, it was just an obsessive need to prove he wasn't a liar. A need
