Nicholas was simply stunned by listening to Althea’s analogy and her logic about true love.
She perhaps hadn’t experienced the deep intensity of being loved and instead she had loved someone with all her heart and had got burned back in response.
Just like Nicholas had.
But she didn’t fall down the drain like Nicholas did.
Instead, Nicholas needed something more firm to grow up and grow out of the hurt that he was suffering through for the past six months.
He found Althea and her food and that’s he started to come out of all that, that had devoured him on the inside.
But he was amazed to see that Althea fought through the pain on her own.
He also had his family, who was there with him at his worst and lowest point in life. Despite of the fact, that he pushed them away, they still s
