Ethan’s Point of View
“B-But he…”
Eden’s voice faltered. Her eyes darted in the direction I had gone, her expression frozen between disbelief and confusion.
I could almost imagine the storm raging in her mind.
After all, in her eyes, I was just an orphan—
A nobody who spent every spare minute after class working part-time jobs, scraping by day to day.
A broke student who wore second-hand clothes and avoided social gatherings because he couldn’t afford the bills.
And yet, what she’d just witnessed completely shattered that image.
The way that man trembled at the mere sight of me… the way he bowed, slapped himself b****y, and begged for mercy—
It went against everything she thought she knew about me.
The truth must’ve hit her like a tidal wave.
Eden hesitated for a long while befo
