
You might as well drop then lmao I’m so disappointed in this story and the author. I get that this is their narration, but the constant r8pe/abuse in BL has got to stop. Something that I noticed over the years (10 years) is that authors rarely depict a healthy gay relationship. Why are all the relationships abusive?

Noah is afraid because he is afraid. When Ian decided that Noah doesn't seemed to have the heart to be FWB anymore he said let's stop this. What does Noah forgiving him have to do with anything? Just because Ian wanted to have a FWB relationship?!? And if Noah had confessed his feelings, what would have changed if all Ian had wanted was a FWB relationship?!?
Noah ran away because he couldn't handle the rejection. On top of that he had forced an alpha into a mate-bond and whether intentionally or not he got scared of the mate bond and possibly of Ian's finding out about it, so he ran and hid. Noah isn't blameless here.
If noah forgive him then I'm dropping