"It wasn't my choice," he told her quickly, before thinking it through. How much could he tell her? If he let the cat out of the bag, it could affect others besides him. It would be selfish. But how to tiptoe around it?
"I loved my family and my friends. I was a giant pain in their asses, yes, but I loved them."
Derek leaned in so that only she would be able to hear him. "I was abducted. Tortured. Forced to stage my own crime scene." She must know about the bloody clothes in the desert. "Haven't you noticed that there are things here that just don't make sense? Things that are...unnatural?"