Chapter(Two Hundred) Twenty Six: You almost died

Leo couldn't meet her eyes. Her words had struck at one of his biggest insecurities. The fear of never being enough. If his own family could so easily cause him pain, if his mother could so readily walk out of his life then what was stopping Becca from doing the same thing when she found out who he really was. The little self deprecating voice in his head would always whisper that she would hate him when she realized how truly fucked up he turned out. Worse, she would run— scared of him.

Leo had always had people against him but his biggest enemy had always been his own mind.

Those insecurities had ruined past relationships. For years, he physically couldn't let people get too close without it triggering his fight or flight response, and for so long that little voice had so much power over him. People always left, and once they found out that he wasn't alright up there, they would have a valid reason to.