I rushed towards the room with my heart beating fast. I could feel everything my mate was feeling, and it was killing me. I pushed the door open, quickly noticing that it wasn’t locked, and immediately found Valerie sitting on our bed. She was facing one of the blue walls looking like she wanted to cry, but no tears fell from her eyes. I approached her slowly, trying not to scare her. She didn’t even budge when I sat down beside her, so I wrapped her in a side hug and planted a soft kiss on the top of her head.
“Hey, you okay?” I asked her without thinking.
“No,” she answered immediately. Yeah, that was a dumb question.
“Do you want to talk about it?” I offered, but for a long time, there was only silence.
When I was younger, I really hated seeing people sad, but I never really knew wh
