Namara's POV:

Knowing that I didn't deserve him, I decided to act like a fool and pretend I didn’t hear what he had accidentally confessed because Alexander had given me too much already and he had lost too much because of me.

He had always protected me in school, always stood by me. When people whispered that I should be with him, when even teachers joked that we acted like we were already mated, I brushed it off and insisted he only saw me platonically. Because I was stupid, blind, and ...