he didn’t think seeing you with another would hurt him this much. Perhaps it was his turn to feel how you did when he announced that he was betrothed to the acting grandmaster Jean. ———————————————————- he just had to go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like

“I love you.” He confesses. He can see it in your eyes that you despise those words she had heard the night before, though she only liked if it was her love who had said it to her. Gods, only love can hurt like this.