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Lodestar:Got news. You won’t believe me if I tell you, but you need to know I wouldn’t mess around with this.

Maverick:Stop burying the lede.

Alessa:Is Kati in danger?

Lodestar:Not anymore.

Maverick:Mission accomplished?

Alessa:Thank God.

Lodestar:Did you notice her nightmares, Alessa?

Maverick:No missing them.

Alessa:Yes. Every night, sometimes two, three times.

Maverick:My poor Old Lady. It’s a wonder she hasn’t gone insane. What with me and Kati. I’m sorry, Alessa. I wish things were easier for you.

Alessa:Maverick, things are what they are and I’m blessed to have you both in my life.

Lodestar:Less of the pity party, Maverick. She loves you. You’re lucky. Just treat her like the queen she is (or else).

Maverick:I feel the threat over in Jersey.

Lodestar:So you should.

Maverick:And I will. Hopefully, I already do?

Alessa:He does. He’s helping me go to school, Star.

Lodestar:Which school?

Maverick:Like, getting her GED, you know? So she can go to college.

Alessa:I want to be a nurse.

Lodestar:You do?

Maverick:Yeah, I told her she kinda is already. :/

Alessa:Shut up. I know it’s been a bad couple of days, Maverick, but we’re in this together. Forever.

Maverick:Forever, baby girl.

Alessa::*

Lodestar:So, to cut up the mushy stuff, and it’s not because I’m allergic to mush or anything, but Katina’s family isn’t exactly ‘ideal.’

Maverick:In what way?

Alessa:On her father’s side? My mother was a farmer’s daughter.

Maverick:She is related to you, isn’t she?

Lodestar:Fuck off.

Maverick::P

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