JUDE'S POV I watched Merida leave the cave as tears began to form in my eyes. She had told me she wasn't ready to be with any man and I was sure it was because of that bastard who always beat and molested her everyday. Who the f**k beats a woman that way if not a demon. He always molested her to the point of almost killing her, thank God he died before he achieved his aims of killing her. Right from the first day I perceived Merida's fragrance, I fell in love with everything about her starting from her whole being and her charisma. I had always wanted to let her know about my feelings from the first day she walked up to Sevilla and I in the palace, but I don't know what stopped me from telling her then. All the same, I've told her about it and I hoped she would accept. I studied Mer

