Chapter 42: 3RD POV.
He found it incredibly hard to accept. The woman he had labeled as a heartless villainess, a monster who only cared about her own amusement, had been his silent guardian before he even knew her name.
"Y-You're saying you never intended to eat me?" he asked, his tone unsure. The question felt stupid now, given the look on her face, but he had to hear it.
"Did you really see me as a monster from the very beginning?" Persephone asked.
She stared at him with those teary eyes, and for the first time, Jacob saw the loneliness that Garin had talked about.
She looked like a child who had tried to do something nice and had been kicked for it. "Is that all I am to you? A monster?"
Jacob felt a pang of guilt, but then he remembered the rest of the cave. Recalling the horror he felt when he first explored this place. Which grounded his thoughts.
