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He'd found her, but she didn't look that pleased to see him.
He had sorted out all the problems and come up with a solution and now she wasn't happy to see him.
He bent to pet Cole, "We're going to have our work cut out for us now."
Cole whined.
That evening he met Lissa behind the building after dark.
"You shouldn’t have come," she insisted. "Did you get my note."
"Jack did."
"It was for you both." She looked away.
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p; "I have another plan… " he began.
She shook her head, "It won't work, Moon. I refuse to be a man any longer."
"It's not the same plan."
"Don't you see, it won't work!" she fretted throwing her hands in the air but whispering.
"What if you came back as my half breed bride." He asked.
"Your half… breed bride. You mean now you want me to be an Indian?" she shrieked.
"Would that be so bad?" he frowned at her now. Had she missed the part where he said, 'bride'?
"Think about it, if you are my half-breed bride, the only one that would recognize you at all, is your father. What are the chances of running into him?" He asked staring into her unhappy face.
"You keep saying bride, you mean you and I would get married?" she stared.
"Yes." He replied with a smile.
"Moon, haven't I messed enough of your life up?" she asked.
"We are in this together. We pledged ourselves to this, Lissa. I killed Earl, you killed the man your father sent. We both witnesses it. We have to stay together. Please, come home with me… "
"Who would marry a white woman and an Indian man?" she asked.
"Jack said we must find a Catholic Priest to do it. I bought you two Indian dresses you won't look like a white woman in the church. Word would get around if you did and then they would come looking for us for that."
She shook her head, "I don't think this would work either Moon."
"Why?" He asked frowning now.
"I would take the marriage too seriously, and you are Indian, not bound by the white man's laws."
There was a noise and she moved closer to him now.
He stared down into her worried face, "We do not have time to discuss this. Either you come or not!"
He hadn't said anything about how he felt, and he knew he should. But the way she acted, so removed from him. The way she didn't respond to his proposal made him angry with her, for he knew her feelings even now. And yet she would not say them. And his Indian pride kept him from it too.
She sighed, "Alright Moon, I'll go with you, but not until the end of the week, when I'm to take a stage out of here. Can you come back for me?"
