I almost felt sorry for Caius as I walked away from him to spend a pleasant evening with Marius.
He had been trying so hard to hurt me and when he realized I was simply going to leave he didn’t know how to react - that was why he stormed out and ripped the necklace from around my neck, and it was why he was lost for words when I called him out on his behavior.
He said so casually that I was supposed to love him that he clearly believed it without question; it made no sense to him that I didn’t feel the way he wanted me to, and he was angry because he didn’t know what he could do to manipulate me.
He had chosen me because I was different, but now he was learning that being different to all of the others he could have had Juventas transform meant that he didn’t know how to control me.
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