They truly try to do the "having a dark and mysterious history where a rich child had a problem, Mc helped and now that child is looking for Mc" plot, that's absolutely not going to compensate the rest
Just binge read this today. I was overwhelmed by the non toxidy between them and has hoped for a twisted personality from Ido. He was too green to be true, almost healed my reading traumas from all the other stories I've read. And then I read the comments haha
Like ya'll can't tell me that you're still hoping for a somewhat satisfactory redemption arc. We are all reading just for the hope that our cutie get out of that situation and ends up laughing and smiling happily with another man
They are all soo frigging selfish, doing things the way they want and disregarding how Al would have to face the consequences