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Original X-roads-2003
Rean sat down with Jasylin and smiled politely. “Jonothan cares deeply for you. I would even dare call it Love.”
I sat silently and listened to her.
“We’ve known about you for a long time, and you’ve been the topic of many discussions here.” She wasn’t giving off any kind of emotional reading. “We are happy to meet you at last. I wasn’t sure I would ever meet you. This is both a happy and a sad meeting for the both of us.”
I felt the temperature in the room drop a few degrees.
Rean’s smile faded, “It is often the dreams of our kind to live like free men. I of course wanted different for my son after he found you. You are both a blessing and a curse to him.”
She reached out to me and caressed my arm in sympathy. “His feelings for you are such a gift, but what torture it must be to know he must give them up.”
“What?!?!” I jerked out of her reach. How dare she come in here acting like she cares and tell me this!
“Jasylin, he is in what you would call an arranged marriage. He must marry another.” She reached out again, as if to console me but I jerked away. “Even if this were not the case, you are an alien to this world. If it were not for my son, you would not be alive at this moment because you need oxygen. You can not reproduce, or produce offspring in any way.”
Well that explains that. Next time Sertoff asks me why I haven’t slept with Jonothan… Because our parts don’t match.
Jonothan walked out from the room with his dad.
“I’ve explained things to her.” his mother said and went to join Gartan.
Once the door was closed Jonothan sat beside me and pulled me into his lap. “Don’ be mad, gal. Wat I’m sposed ta do? Pretend I feel nothin? I wasn’t gettin married, til long after you dead an gone. I jus’ stay back, maybe you find someone. Maybe you don. Sertoff get in yo’r head. You don kno wat all de mind can do. You not aware wat all de mind control. And he use dat against you, at every turn. You think you wan him, you THINK!” He tapped the side of my temple with his finger. “You spend enough time away from him, you see wat power he have over you. You see who you thin bout, wat you thin bout all on yo’r own. What yo wan, when there no one d’ere telling you wat you wan. An believe me, he doin it!”
I let out a short breath, this from the guy who uses his charm on me to the full extent that he can to get his way as well. Funny.