I think he did love her when they were teenager but resented the love he had for her and later that turned into this whole mess of emotional abuse that she suffered I'm not the being the that person who is clarifying in favor of some asshole by saying this thing but I felt his love for her while reading but he still didn't have the right to make her the tool for his resentful past
They could have been each other salvation but he ruined that chance
yeah for sure, i do think his story does explain his behavior!
but at the same time i don't see how, even if she's made aware of his past and how he came to act like that, she could move past the betrayal.
i know that it will probably be what happens in the end cause it is a romance story, but i feel like the author kinda failed at making the reader feel like their relationship could be repaired.
i really think the story is kinda pointless now because how is she ever going to forget / forgive for lying to her for so long.
okay he has a traumatizing past, he's repenting, great. but how could they ever go back together?
the fact that he pretended to be in love with her just can't be erased. it would feel so unrealistic to me that she starts to trust him enough to get back.