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Of course this was going to be one of the few things that Iwan was going to be stubborn about. She knew that he was just trying to help, and the idea of waking up next to him every morning for a while wasn't exactly -- unpleasant, but then he'd have to know all the terrible things that she felt she could keep to herself when she was living at home.

She let her head tip into his hand and snorted, trying to brush the irritation irrationally boiling in her stomach down. She acted confident and outspoken all the time, but that didn't mean she wasn't just covering up some of her deeper-seated issues. She couldn't do that if they were together all the time like that, and she'd -- just end up screwing it up.

"No, you're good for me. I --" she paused, tempted to say that she just put people in danger. That sounded ridiculous, of course. "I'm no good for anyone, really." She hadn't been able to support Sturgis in the way he'd needed when they'd been dating, and what had she been able to do for her family? Nothing but leech off them and put them in danger. She felt stupid, so stupid for feeling like this. Marissa knew she'd gotten lucky during the war, but sometimes -- sometimes it didn't feel that way.