06-08-2022, 01:51 AM
Malachi would never understand her.
How could anyone so kind truly exist? So understanding, even of someone like him – especially of someone like him. He’d killed her grandfather. He’d done countless things before that, too, and in the time since.
It terrified him, that she could relate to his dependency on his deceased father. Malachi felt more and more like him with every day that passed.
He did not want to be for her what Lyle had been for him.
“…If it would make you feel better to do so,” he relented. There was no way he would ever tell her how he ended up in this state (and try to explain Arthur?), but he knew how important his health was to her.
“I’ll stay in here. I… thank you, Nettie. For the room, and… for everything.”
How could anyone so kind truly exist? So understanding, even of someone like him – especially of someone like him. He’d killed her grandfather. He’d done countless things before that, too, and in the time since.
It terrified him, that she could relate to his dependency on his deceased father. Malachi felt more and more like him with every day that passed.
He did not want to be for her what Lyle had been for him.
“…If it would make you feel better to do so,” he relented. There was no way he would ever tell her how he ended up in this state (and try to explain Arthur?), but he knew how important his health was to her.
“I’ll stay in here. I… thank you, Nettie. For the room, and… for everything.”
