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Sialuk related her own troubles with finding a worthy man. Worthy… Meerkat murmured, fighting a sigh. Is it so much to ask? For a man to show us how much we mean to him? At least, she assumed that was part of the issue for Sialuk too.

Meerkat lapsed into pensive silence for a beat, then shared, I knew he couldn’t give me what I needed, so I told him we didn’t belong together. And I know that was the right thing. I don’t want to spend my life wondering if my husband even really loves me.

The whole thing made her cringe, in hindsight. She should’ve ended things the first time Issorartuyok told her he’d never looked at her as wife material, then explained he could come to like her that way, if he tried. Thinking about it now made Meerkat let out a noise of disgusted despair.