Next evening Jax was trailing behind Astrid in a mall while practically buried under a mountain of shopping bags that she either bought or was handed for free because apparently, when your father is the wealthiest tycoon in the academy lands and owns shares in half the shops along with the whole mall, the entire commercial district essentially functions as your personal free giveaway.
Sticking around with Astrid had taught Jax a lot of new things that he had never gone through in his previous life. He had mastered reading people back in his prime days but when it came to Astrid he always got beaten. Maybe love was the thing that turned his sharp mind into a completely different and far stupider persona.
First he had learned how to apologize even without being at fault and even before the girl pointed it out. This was the complete opposite of how he treated the rest of the world where he never apologized even when the mistake was clearly his.
