[ He's grateful, for that touch for now, for something else to help ground him. He nods a little, though, Miles seems to have an idea of how awful that feels, but. ]

Her death ruined him. He obsessed over it, obsessed over her. [ More than the fact that the knows what it feels like to love her, what affects him the most ends up being that he knows what it feels like to have lost her. And because they'd used her memory to torture the Alpha, what it feels like to lose her again and again and again and again. ] Tormented himself over her loss and let it literally tear him apart.

[ He seems calm enough, but eyes are still closed, his fingers still kneading against the corner of his temple. These memories just literally hurt. ]