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"I stole from him, I scammed him, I cheated on him, I betrayed him, and just generally treated him terribly because I was irrational. Now I'm so sad he doesn't trust me!"
The author is working very hard to make us feel sorry for the MC but has made the MC completely irrational. I know that the ML is acting like a psychopath and a rapist, he's not sympathetic either. But I don't understand why I should feel sorry for the MC when he's a filthy thief.
He didn't have to run off with the wikileaks. He could have kept the terms of his contract and none of this would have happened. He wouldn't have had to sleep with that other man. He wouldn't have had to be on the run. His intentional and willful actions are why all of this is happening to him. He knew this was going to happen when he chose to be a thief and he did it anyways. Now he's wallowing himself pity. It's just not likeable.