Why Gio still wanted to be with me after everything, I had no clue. I had been so terrible, I realize that now. In my bid to protect him, to protect my brother. Their relationship. And ultimately, in trying to protect myself too, scared of being in another relationship. Scared of not being enough. Scared of not being good enough. I had pushed him away so many times. Yet he had never faltered. He had been there time and time again.
Hearing all the things he said had melted my heart. I had to be the luckiest woman in the world. Probably the stupidest too, to have let him go before. But now, now our secret is no longer a secret. We could see where this went. The only downside was, that we were on the opposite sides of the country now. But we will have to address that another time, because to
