random: I am very glad that the ML has the realization he is the lucky one in this relationship with real thought behind that, not just casual words saying that. Bc it's true. It actually made me remember a diff bg romance book where I had such huge issues with the cold ML despite him doing everything in his actions to like her but she had to read his mind and cater to his emotions without any communication from his part on his affections for her and she still had undying love for him... And ppl kept telling her she was the lucky one to get such a successful good looking guy. No. The man came back to her after ditching her for years bc he probably realized no one else would desperately love him and read his mind for him, not that the ML ever acknowledged that -- just my observation lmao and I dropped that novel. The moral of the story here is that this ML actually sees how lucky he is and will change. And thar is good deep dynamic character writing from this author.