He hadn’t taken kindly to being assigned to essentially babysit you when you had first been transported to their reality.

He had done his best to ward you off, even warning you of who he was. Yet, despite it all?

You stayed.

You stayed with him even after figuring out who he was. A monster.

And by the Gods did he love you. Always staring at you with love and affection in his eyes, having been reduced from a mysterious, strong-headed beast to a love-stricken man.