THALIA
The question caught me off guard, but the unease left my system almost immediately. Gino’s my pack member, and I trust him. If I’m going to be honest with Rael, I should also do for the pack.
“I was the problem,” I admitted with a small, sad smile, “I couldn’t be honest with myself. There was too much happening, and I kept pushing things aside instead of dealing with them. It has been my coping mechanism for years, and I kind of got used to it, but now that things are different, I couldn’t keep up, and I was simply scared of tearing down the walls of comfort I built around my heart.”
I leaned against the wall, trying to choose my words carefully. “Something happened that forced me to stop doing that, and it caused a gap between us. I deserved the silence he gave me, and I didn’t
