"You are naive," I could hear Kevin say to me. "And although that's a cute trait, it isn't a perfect world. You don't go around helping and opening your heart to everyone. You will get used."
But here I am, Gray pulling me to his body, and somehow, I couldn't get myself to be angry with him. God knows I probably would have turned out much worse had I been the one to go through everything he has. And I do find it extremely strong of him that it didn't make him any less a man, neither did it make him any less competent. It did make him cold, but we are all allowed to feel pain a little differently. I, for one, wasn't about to question how he feels a pain I have never experienced.
Slowly, I moved my hand across his back, gently soothing him like I would have begged for someone to soothe me
