Stephan POV:
I never liked nor sympathized with weaklings. Being resilient and unbreakable are family traits, teachings inoculated in our behavior from a young age, so it’s f*****g understandable to be grueling for me to see her so weak, yet there is something about her that makes my protective instincts explode.
Seeing her laying in the bed, so innocent and vulnerable, but so exhausted, it’s difficult to watch, it’s causing me wanting to do the impossible to make it better for her.
She was not frail when she fought against my accusations, she was not insecure either when she discarded my marriage proposal so many times, no, she is not actually weak, she is just a concerned daughter, Frank is the only family she has, except me.
Now I am her husband, her family, I will have to explain
