"Never." Two different definitions of "let me go" there, but he wasn't physically releasing her, either.

Nor was he admitting that he'd been talking to Stiles, of all people, because then he was just going to look like a neurotic loser commiserating with the other guy carrying a torch. And, unlike the rest of them, he was hardly a teenager anymore.

"He wants you. You weren't exactly shutting him down."