" i'll protect you with my life. "
PROTECTIVE STARTERS | NOT ACCEPTING.
WHAT A DARING thing to say: Hope doubted the honesty behind it. Would she really lay down her life for his own ?? He couldn’t swallow it; he’d already been put in that position, the prize that his Mother DIED to protect; Hope didn’t want to feel the pain that he CRIPPLED him like it did back then.
❛ Don’t say things like that - you… You should TREASURE your life, ❜ He cherished her loyalty, which he forgot to convey in place of that which he deemed more important. To die for somebody is to leave them with nothing but confusion & BITTERNESS. Whether he was saying this to save himself the trauma, or to protect her, even he didn’t know: ❛I don’t want you to - to even be HURT because of me.❜