Re: Mariner's Inn: Jeze C/Max M
He feels me saying he deserves better is the same as taking his agency away. I tried to explain that family wants good things and only good things, and I was never going to like the asshole. I think that's the end of that relationship. [Max didn't sound like it was the end of the world. She hadn't known Lin before Las Vegas, and even that was a decade in the rear view.] And El, El was raised by my mother. She had the loving upbringing I never got, and she's still the most bitter person I know. I know a lot of bitter people.
The kid was married to his family, and it didn't make it easy, the fact that Max thought he made a terrible choice in a life partner. Not that Max had chosen any better, back when there'd been a choice to make. But the kid was never going to leave Wren, and that put them at odds. But she loved him, the kid, and there was no doubt about that.
But Jack. Corvus.] I might. I haven't decided. Opening that door. My lover, he's gone. I wouldn't want to reach out to Corvus just because McKendrick wasn't around. [She shook her head, and she exchanged the bracelet for the chain and ring. She sat on the bed, and she held it up, the light better higher in the space.] It's nice. Are they going to come looking for you?
[She wasn't worried. Max didn't worry about things like that. What could possibly happen? Someone would kill her again? Let them try.]