The Villain's Hero
he had said then, and it had been sorrowful.
I sighed and nodded to myself in acceptance. He had always called himself a villain’s son and I had carelessly paid no heed. I had disregarded how he had come to be in Nerith as a hostage, and his upbringing, because neither had mattered to me. But it had mattered to him. It had always been in the back of his mind and on the heels of the attack in Nerith and turning that man’s arm to stone, seeing me dressed as a princess amongst my family had convinced Aien that we had no future together. A dream. A nice dream.
Perhaps if I had understood then, I could have done something to change everything that had happened since, but I had been confused and t