Bjorn's POV
I hesitate, the story not one I feel like telling, but I decide I might as well, even if it is just to reduce the tension in the air.
"I had a mate once, but she died," I explain briefly. Letting them know that this is as much detail as I am giving them.
Ren shakes his head, his expression somber. "Sorry to hear it." He seems genuinely sympathetic and I feel myself relax a little.
"Me, too," Damon adds, his eyes widening a little as though this shocks him. I am not sure if I should be insulted that it never occurred to him I could have someone, or amused. "I did not know."
"When was this?" Ren asks.
"It has been over seventy years," I answer. "Though sometimes, it feels like yesterday."
"Which means you are not yet over her," Ren states.
I do not answer. I do not really
