1. He will be only a man.
He will be only a man.
Not a prince like her mother had always wanted. He didn't have much money, even less since they had been all but disinherited by their parents. He had bad manners, he didn't play around with pleasantries or empty compliments, he wasn't powerful or remarkable. He was all around a rough person and he stole just about everything of value.
But for almost every fault, he leveled it in some way. He may not have had much in the ways of cash, but he made her happy without spending a single penny.
He didn't have the best manners, but he made her laugh every day.
He didn't flatter her all the time like she would expect a prince to, but when he did give her a compliment she knew he meant it.
He wasn't powerful, but he was still every bit as remarkable to her.
He was rough, that was true. But he was always gentle when he was around her.
But the stealing was something she couldn't forgive.
He had been better about it since Ben became King, but there were still times she would enter his room and find trinkets laying around that she KNEW didn't belong to him. Just the other day she had found one of Lonnie's hair ornaments, maybe she would have been jealous if it hadn't been in a pile of other jewelry he had stolen from various princesses around the school.
He had even stolen from her. He hadn't stolen her prized necklace as he had when they had first met, he had stolen something even more precious to her. Something her mother would kill her if she ever found out she had.
Her heart.
The only heart her mother was interested in was Snow White's, cut out and placed in a box. Evie wasn't supposed to have one, that had been something made very clear to her since she was a child. But she did, and she worked hard to make sure no one knew she had it.
But Jay had found it, and he had stolen it without her even knowing.
She just couldn't forgive him for stealing her heart.
But she loved him all the more for it.