"You need to pay more attention to him. He looked hurt." Cassian stared at the sleeping child.
It took them a long time to explain to Alec how the kids were bullying him since he did not mind bowing his head.
His argument that kids at the orphanage often bowed their heads in front of everyone was extremely difficult to refute.
In the end, Mary told him about the class system and how he held a strong position in the empire.
Afterward, Alec told them he wouldn't need it. This might be the reason the kids were bitter toward him.
Mary had nothing to refute. It was true that if Alec had been a commoner, he would not have had to bear the harshness of a noble society and engaged himself in such matters.
