Ninety-Seven

Axel’s POV

All of the feelings that ravaged my being of recently had been foreign to me entirely, I’d never been one to fall victim to the matters of the heart, and usually, I took them too lightly for their outcome to affect me.

But with Lisa, it was as though my heart crossed every single warning cone I’d put up, pushed all the guards surrounding my heart, and what ent all the way fucking in. How much I loved her felt like it was the necessity to breathe in oxygen every damn second.

How on earth could a person feel this deeply for another? I wondered.

The fact that I’d lasted through a conversation about how she’d made me feel despite how much it hurt to, proved that I indeed still felt our connection hadn't been severed yet.

Here she was, after eavesdropping and listening to the new plan she now wanted to help cement it since she knew her father best compared to me and Prince. Her pleas only upset me because she didn't have a right to be offering to fix what she fucked up in the fi