The True Heiress: Legend Mode novel Chapter 44

Babur called out to stop her, "Are you... leaving already?"

Juno raised an eyebrow at him. "What else? Am I supposed to wait until you fall asleep before I leave?"

Babur looked thoroughly uncomfortable. "Fine, fine, go if you want to go! Don't even bother coming to see me!"

Juno was baffled by his outburst. "It's been three days since you got your ass kicked, and you're already asking for another beating?"

Leaving that single sentence hanging in the air, Juno headed for the room next door.

Babur: He was just a pathetic, unloved, abandoned little cabbage.

Right then, the hospital room door opened again. Babur's eyes lit up as he stared eagerly at the entrance.

But the person who walked in was Rhiannon.

The bright, blossoming energy radiating from Babur instantly withered and died.

The lively hospital room lost all its light.

"Why are you here?"

Babur leaned back against his pillows, his tone flat.

Rhiannon didn't pick up on his coldness. "I was passing by the area, so I thought I'd drop in to see you. Since you're fine, I'll be going now."

She took two steps toward the door before suddenly turning back, her voice softening. "Babur, about what happened yesterday... I thought about it, and I should explain. It's not that I didn't want to help you; it's just that under those circumstances, confronting them head-on wasn't a good idea.

If a fight broke out, given the situation, I was terrified you'd get hurt even worse. That's why I told you to apologize first."

Rhiannon's excuse sounded exactly like a guilty conscience trying to cover its tracks.

Babur was a straight shooter; he said whatever was on his mind. He immediately shot back, "But Juno helped me teach them a lesson."

One specific sentence Juno had said was burned into his memory.

*"I wouldn't even dare beat him like that, and you did?"*

Those words made him feel, for the very first time, what it was like to be fiercely protected.

He was important to someone.

Only Babur truly knew what he was going through at school.

He couldn't let his family find out, and he had no idea who else to tell about the bullying.

Even his own parents would have told him to handle the situation rationally. Only Juno—only she—protected him without asking for a reason, regardless of the consequences.

Babur had been starved for this kind of unapologetic favoritism.

He never expected Juno to be the one to give it to him.

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