Alec

“It’s what you didn’t say, Dad.” Cooper could hear his voice loud and steady, like it had been growing inside him and waiting to burst out for years. “You never even mentioned it. Like it didn’t exist. Like it didn’t even cross your mind that I could be gay or bi or anything else. How was I to know it was okay? I never heard it from you. It wasn’t my job to tell you. It was yours to make me feel like I didn’t have to hide it from you.”
― Charlie Adhara, The Wolf at Bay

“Because now more than ever, we knew how easy it was to be a child. Everything was black-and-white until you grew up and saw gray everywhere.”
― Cara Dee, If We Could Go Back

“That's who he wanted to be at his core. Not alpha, or survivor, or mate, overdramatic, anxious, cantankerous grump. Not even husband, really. Those were all facets, badges. At his core, he wanted to be his own wildest dreams.”
― Charlie Adhara, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

“That's something they didn't warn you about getting older, seeing your parents age too, seeing them as people, sad and afraid and haunted by their own mistakes.”
― Charlie Adhara, The Wolf at Bay