Will felt dumbfounded, and inexplicably, he also felt a bit like he’d been abandoned. Xian had gone to Lance’s side as if it was only natural that he did so, like he’d done the same thing hundreds of times before even though they’d literally just met.
‘It’s really starting…’ he thought, gritting his teeth while frowning.
Will knew it. Something was definitely off with that Lance guy. If he didn’t think that that was the case, he wouldn’t have gone so far as to try and interfere with their auditions.
Wasn’t it a common abuser’s tactic to quickly lower their chosen victim’s guard by raining abnormal amounts of attention and affection on them?
They also want their target to end up depending only on them for everything, so on top of getting them addicted to their company, an abuser tends
