She wouldn't hold on to the hate, which meant he was right and she wanted to move on from the things he'd done. Be family again if not friends. He didn't think she'd ever forgive. If not for her own death then for what he'd done to Ben. And he supposed, for what he took from her. He'd really taken a lot, and his aunt would have to live with that, deal with it, in this strange reality where they were both alive but he had his family and she did not have hers. It was cruel and it was unfair, but she'd adapt. Mara could always adapt. She had not been Sith, but she knew the Sith, she'd known his grandfather if not well and she'd known Palpatine as much as he'd let her. Had she ever expect it to touch her family so much, probably not. But she knew what she was dealing with, she'd seen Caedus for what he'd been, as vile as Palpatine, so she'd told him back in that cave on Kavan.
"I like that you're here, Jaina's weak here, Anakin's young and while Tenel Ka and Allana could probably fight me, they shouldn't have to. If I turn though, you would, wouldn't you. The second you saw him in me, you'd stop me. I need that from someone in my life. Someone that won't trust me just because I smile and promise things will be better." He knew that Mara would not make the same mistake twice and that appealed to him more than he could put into words. He was still her nephew, but he would never be the same man that she had entrusted her son's training to.
"Tell me though Mara, have you found anything redeeming? Tenel Ka says she has but my wife is more than a little biased." he said with a smile at calling her his wife. It had been a long time coming. "Have you seen anything you can believe in yet?" He didn't expect a positive answer, he shouldn't get one. Truth be told, he didn't deserve one. Far from it. But Mara was often surprising like that, doing the thing people didn't expect.