Redsand Canyon match point

Right, she said slowly, glad of his answer but beginning to mistrust her good fortune with all of this. What if she agreed and they married, popped out a couple of kids and he turned out to be some deadbeat dad? Towhee had told Germanicus she wouldn’t stand for that. And she wouldn’t. But she supposed there was some small part of her—mangled by her experience with Reyes—that would always wait for the other shoe to drop.

We’d share a den in the married housing, Towhee reminded him. Maxim surely knew that, though she let her words sink in for a moment. And just because I wouldn’t want to ~MaKe LoVe~ or even kiss you good night, it doesn’t mean we couldn’t be close in a different way. We’d still be comrades in arms as well as parenting together, so there’d be a bond there. And I’d want a… cohesive household, I guess you could say.