For some time, it seemed like Lyric had finally started treating Soren like an actual person rather than someone beneath him. The hostility had faded while the sharp words had grown fewer and there were moments where Lyric even appeared protective in his own awkward way.
Caelius had thought that maybe, just maybe, Lyric was beginning to understand Soren but that illusion shattered far too easily.
The moment Lyric discovered that Soren had slept with the prince, Cael, everything collapsed.
What angered Caelius the most was how quickly Lyric turned his back on Soren. There had been no questions and attempt to understand, not even the smallest effort to hear Soren's side of the story.
Lyric didn't ask why or how it happened.
Instead, Lyric immediately jumped to his own conclusion, as if the answer had already been decided in his mind from the very beginning. In Lyric's eyes, Soren had simply acted shamelessly, like someone who seduced men without restraint.
