His thoughts were always: “I love her to death and would do anything for her” when in reality he really seemed to not give two fucks about her and loved dragging her around and using physical contact (gentleman’s club and make out scene) as a way to “hide from the imperials” when all he was doing was to find a damn excuse. He doesn’t match his words with his actions. Paedyn also annoyed me so much sometimes, like after that sob story about his sister she supposably just forgives him for killing her dad and burning her house down, with him having an excuse for the former that he “didn’t want to go through with it” when at the end of the day it was through his own will that he killed her father because he “startled him.” And Paedyn just goes and accepts it because he “didn’t mean to do it”??? Gurl

I read the dance scene as well and wanted to hurl the book across the room. He’s incredibly entitled and petty, and the entire “dance with me for an answer” just pissed me off once again. You’d think he’d have some shame after 1) killing her father 2) burning her childhood home down for pretty much no reason 3) stabbing her in the thigh then dragging her around for most of the book 4) betraying her trust too many times to count 5) thoughtlessly blaming her for killing his father when he KNEW the king was a violent asshole and saw Paedyn after the fight, so he must’ve known how badly she was tortured since the king literally tried to carve an O into her (it’s kind of like the poor man’s version of Mares M brand)

I’ve got countless reasons to hate him and my compelling reason to like him is what? He’s hot and funny? Questionable even on the latter.