NATALIA I’ve been avoiding a conversation with Tristan as much as I could after the incident during the full moon. I acted like nothing happened, but changed the topic whenever he tried to bring it up. Was it petty? Maybe. But I can’t, for the life of me, deal with it at the moment. I can’t even blame him for what he did without feeling like I was the most selfish person in the world. Whatever happens, I always lose anyway. I need to protect my sanity, or I won’t last anymore. Instead, I poured my attention into working and my duties to the pack and only talked to Tristan when I really needed to. Because if I let myself listen to him, really listen, I’d end up folding again. I knew that I’d break apart, and he’d see how barely I was just keeping myself together. I refused to let that h

