[He's asking for something that can't exist. What it ultimately comes down to is both timing and nurture, and the simple fact that Yamato undoubtedly loved Junko but he didn't seem in love with her, which was probably another important distinction.]

Because we weren't raised the way they were, because even if we were able to run off into the sunset together, what do you think that would have meant? Would we have shut out the rest of the world? Had a family?

[Her voice cracks a little at that because that's one fear that she still hasn't been able to shake, despite how rare the issue has become with the greater shift to pack life. What if they had tried, and something went wrong? What if something went wrong with Yamato's child? It didn't matter that half the Lunae pack, the line which produced her father, was inbred - it was still concerning.]

You deserved something better than being stuck with me, and I honest to god thought you would just get over it, Nathan. We were stuck together for so long, you never even had the chance to look at someone else.

[But that'd pretty much blown up in their faces.]