My eyes filled with tears again. I didn’t voice it, but… I struggled to understand why. Why he loved me so much. Why he had waited so long for me. I wasn’t anyone special. I was just the idiot who’d fallen through that void and into his palace. I wasn’t very smart, and I didn’t think I was very handsome. But… Lor did. Lor told me I was smart. And he said I was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen. He treated every moment with me like it was precious.
