Noctisardor Bypass no context.

There were things that went unsaid between Arbiter and Terance. Both were stubborn wolves, and neither were open to talking about emotions... And so they just hadn't. And at least to Arbiter, why mention things that they already knew? Terance probably had his own reasons to not say anything, but Arbiter's was probably more just the fact she was intensely stubborn. 

But knowing or not, hearing from Pike that yes, Terance had said he loved her hurt, and hurt in a way she wasn't expecting. Physical pain she could handle -- she could grit her teeth and move through injury -- but she'd thought she'd moved past Terance by now. Maybe she hadn't. She shut her eyes tightly, looking away from Pike entirely for a moment, which had caused her path to veer slightly off the straight line she'd been traversing. It was only a couple of steps before she turned back on Pike quickly, reaching out to pull him close to her and hold him there -- or as well as she could to her child that wasn't a child any more. She couldn't look him in the eye, she couldn't speak, not that she knew what she'd say anyway.

She was good at saying nothing.