Growing confidence in him

Valerie. 

"Don't cry, I didn't say this to scare you." Luke muttered, stroking her hair as I cried in his arms. I couldn't stop the emotions rushing through my heart and I just kept tearing up and drenching his shirt with my tears. 

"I didn't understand all of this, Luke. One time I was living a very normal life, growing my social life and my career while I went through the difficulties of getting a degree. Even though it wasn't as perfect as I make it seem, it was still better than this." I slowly raised my head to look at him, showing him emotions because I didn't understand what to do with it. 

My life is so chaotic right now and I'm just in the middle of it all. 

"And there is you. You've grown so much on me I can't believe it has been less than 10 days since we met and I was actually hesitating about going to Vidin as soon as possible to save my brother because I didn't want to hurt you."

"You hesitated?"