#CHAPTER 96: What You Want

MAEVE POV “Friends?” The word tumbled out of his mouth in a confused daze. A flurry of emotions washed over his face, worn and weary from a lifetime of neglect, of pain. It was almost as if the word was foreign to him, a word he might have read or heard but never thought was possible for him. “Of course,” I answered. “Is that so difficult to believe?” “It’s just… not something that happens,” he said with an air of such nonchalance that it hurt. “People do not want to befriend me, let alone be in the same room as me. Most don’t even know who I am, and it’s a truth that I have come to accept as my own.” The way he seemed so resigned as he said that… It was exactly how I felt about myself. A terrible, loathsome mindset that I was only barely beginning to curb, thanks to the constant rush of love and support I now had at hand. Maybe, I thought, just maybe this could be the first step for him. And then one day he can become the confident alpha prince that liv