CHAPTER 41 - Not a Monster

　　Ava’s Pov

　　After a while, he pulled back with his eyes connected to mine. They were blood shot, reddened, and still in tears. Caspian’s hands cusped my cheek, with an astonished expression, after a while.

　　“I didn’t mean to wake you--”

　　“It’s okay,” I assured him, leaning my forehead on his. “It’s all okay,”

　　Beneath me, I knew I wanted to heal whatever scars he held from his past. But what made me really scared was the fact that I had mine. Whenever I had a dream about my sister, Jasmine, I really held back from the world.

　　I bore scars too, and wondered if this was why the Moon Goddess paired us.

　　To think that I lost my sister, and he lost his too. He lost his mum, to war and I lost my dad who was a spy, too. Being treated like an outcast, in my village… So was he discriminated for bearing a beast…

　　It did make me to feel and empathize that amount of pain. It was really horrible and torturous…

　　So horrible that it hurt badly.