“I’m sorry.”
Almon halted next to
the seating fixture and regarded its miserable occupant with surprise. “For
what?”
“For all this. You
had to leave work for me, then you felt you needed to defend me from that
investigator when I was the cause of his brother’s death—”
“Stop. Just stop.” The
last thing Almon could bear was Joseph’s voice rising in a prelude to a bout of
self-hatred. The episodes during which the Earther tore himself apart for the
wrongs he’d committed had grown fewer over the last two years, thank the
ancestors. However, that day’s incident and Dramok Kavug’s accusations had
every chance of sending Joseph into a dark pit of guilt, with no hope of
deliverance.
The worst of it was
that Almon couldn’t tell his lover not to beat himself up over what he’d done
as captain of the battlecruiser. Joseph’s inability to stand up against orders
he’d known were wrong had led to the deaths of many of Almon’s shipmates, as well
as horrors for those who’d lived through the imprisonment.
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