beta
The thing about people with low self esteem and depression is that they are cinics, they don’t believe that anyone would actually care for or love them, and when these types of people are treated exactly how they expected the would be treated the just begin to constantly expect it from everyone else. The mc clearly states he doesn’t stand a chance with him, and even when they do get intimate he assumes he’s getting played with by a rich alpha this is due to the fact that the seme never communicated any official relationship (he mentioned possessive or protective things but again he is rich so it wouldn’t be strange to assume he didn’t want anyone to ‘play with his toy’ even tho that isn’t truly the case) and to top all of that off even the people around him were telling him that he was delusional. The mc isn’t dumb, he has been hurt to many times to expect anything else.