Chapter 282: Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Honey [8]
[ZULA]
"What if it’s you that I want?" Liana asked and the king laughed at the thought.
It was impossible for anyone to want him. Then again, he had grown up self-loathing and had gotten so comfortable with his fucked-up state that not even the Erasthai he was given would even be able to convince him otherwise.
But what if she did? What if she taught him what love was and he leaned into it? What if she was the light that would shine in his darkness and the one who would make him feel normal? What then?
Would it all be alright or was he going to try and run away again? This was a temptation, and Zaffuto needed to think. But what was there to think about? The woman had just asked the simplest of questions, yet his mind was thrumming with potential answers.
There were good answers, better answers, and even worse answers. And yet all that he settled for was the most obvious of them all. Oh, but he was a predictable man when it came to his Lili.
"I’m too tainted, Lili... ask anything eels and you’ll have it," Zaffuto said and Liana groaned like she had been expecting this.
It was tiring to be with a man who only ever thought the worst of shields, but Liana was determined to bring him what made him who he was.
She was determined to go to the depths of the worst of the worst if that’s what she needed to do to get her answers and the king on the right side of fate.