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"I’m sorry if it’s confusing. Sometimes I am confused but it’s a process Malachi. We both need time to heal and sometimes we’re just going to have issues. All relationships do but it’s not like I want to be rid of you.”
“So you want to be with me?”
“Yeah, of course I do.”
“What?! They can’t do that! Do they understand the bullshit we’ve had to deal with?”
“Honestly baby I don’t think they give a shit.”
“Oh of course they don’t! They just sit up in their big black and white buildings having their black and white fucking thoughts. I fucking killed a man for you. You can’t tell me that shit didn’t mean anything! We’re married Malachi I don’t give a flying fuck what those fucking uptight black bloods say about it.”
“You are the most confusing fucking creature sometimes.”
“With all that has happened, all that we have been through. This place just felt like a lifetime ago.”
“It was, it was a lifetime ago. I don’t even feel connected to that life anymore. The person I was back then.”
“We’ve both been through a lot.”
”And so much of what this was... just turned out to be manufactured.”
“Yeah... yeah it was. It really was.”
“Are you going to be okay? Do you need anything? You can stay with us as long as you need to. Ollie I’m sorry, I.. shouldn’t have.. I shouldn’t have asked you to do that. I could have figured out some other way to restrain him.. I just.”
“It’s okay, we both made a choice that day and even if we wanted to we can’t really take it back.”
“You know if it matters so much, we could just get re-married.”
“It would be a good excuse for a party.”
“Okay Ollie just.. just tell me. Are they locking me in a room? Will I never see my kid again?”
“No.. we’re all being exiled, even Malachi. Probably the best outcome for you since you since you were never Union really at all but it is a bit more complicated for us. Malachi’s titles and any funds held in Union vaults have been expunged. I didn’t have things like that but in addition all records of our lives outside of the black mark have been locked. Our families that remain are not permitted contact with us, even if they reach out when outside the Union. Should any of us try to return for any reason and are caught, they will kill us.”
“Oh... well that does seem kind of light considering.”
“Yeah, It really is. I think because of the civil unrest they are trying to show mercy. Your husband is actually very popular there and talk of banning Dread just made more people angry. It’s funny what people actually care about.”
“I guess we should head back. Don’t want Olin to be overwhelmed. Gia can kind of be a bit much -”
“You still don’t trust me.”
“I... didn’t say that.”
“You don’t need to, I can feel when I touch you. You don’t say no to me but...”
“Malachi please.”
“If you want to go I.. I understand. Our... everything, just there was nothing right about it aside from Gia and even that I got through dishonest means. What’s more... is we’re not even technically legally married anywhere now. Never were officially joined here. As for the Union, the Commons said it was an illegal action since the Novari were still on the black lists. According to them we were never married.”