Not a book to be set aside lightly

[lannamichaels]

“Aral talked to me about nearly everything-I was his only safe repository for that part of himself, till you came along-but he was always a bit cagey about how you two got started. The empire was at peace, Miles was safely locked up in the Academy, political tensions were at an all-time low-not that that lasted-I go off to visit my mother on Beta Colony leaving him in no worse straits than another of his unrequited silent crushes. I come back to find you two up and running and poor Illyan having a meltdown-it was like talking him in off a ledge.” Aral’s utterly loyal security chief had never come closer to, if not weeping with relief, at least cracking an expression, to find in her not an outraged spouse, but an unruffled ally. I knew Aral was bisexual when I married him. And he knew I was Betan. Melodrama was never an option, Illyan.

If i weren't reading this on my phone, this would be the throw across the room point...

I think i might continue just to see, but, like, i started this just to be fair, and because petya was throwing tantrums in my head about honor and he has no room at all to talk, and then petya was calming down a bit, but then *I* start noping...

Like, it's not like i didn't know canon!aral was like this, but, yeah, nope. Nope!

Also, this is not how you solve "was bisexual, now monogamous", just btw. That isn't even my biggest problem here, but, nope!

EDIT: The rest of the book

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