Chapter Twenty Five
Do you know how validation works?
Aeira had never
felt more uncomfortable than she was that the moment. Rayce was in a point where he was vulnerable and she knew this was not the right time to say this. However, to hear him say words that he would offer himself just so she could have the freedom that she wanted… felt wrong.
Even if Rayce felt like he had nothing to live for—he does.
He is just lost at the moment and had found someone who cared enough deeply to show his fears. She knew that he could find his father if he wanted to—but given that he had lost before, Rayce had just shut down and keep all the operations to his goal out of his life.
Through his ten years of his mother dying, he made himself believe that he was alone.
He had r
