Maverick: My poor Old Lady. It’s a wonder she hasn’t gone insane. What with me and Kati. I’m sorry, Alessa. I wish things were easier for you.
Alessa: Maverick, things are what they are and I’m blessed to have you both in my life.
Lodestar: Less of the pity party, Maverick. She loves you. You’re lucky. Just treat her like the queen she is (or else).
Maverick: I feel the threat over in Jersey.
Lodestar: So you should.
Maverick: And I will. Hopefully, I already do?
Alessa: He does. He’s helping me go to school, Star.
Lodestar: Which school?
Maverick: Like, getting her GED, you know? So she can go to college.
Alessa: I want to be a nurse.
Lodestar: You do?
Maverick: Yeah, I told her she kinda is already. :/
Alessa: Shut up. I know it’s been a bad couple of days, Maverick, but we’re in this together. Forever.
Maverick: Forever, baby girl.
Alessa: :*
Lodestar: So, to cut up the mushy stuff, and it’s not because I’m allergic to mush or anything, but Katina’s family isn’t exactly ‘ideal.’
Maverick: In what way?
Alessa: On her father’s side? My mother was a farmer’s daughter.
Maverick: She is related to you, isn’t she?
Lodestar: Fuck off.
Maverick: :P
Alessa: This isn’t the time for joking, Maverick.
Lodestar: She’s not my cousin. But we found out who her father is. His name was Bogdan Belyaev. Have you heard of him, Alessa?
Alessa: Belyaev was her father? That’s impossible.
Lodestar: It isn’t, sweetheart.
Alessa: He can’t be.
Lodestar: He is.
Alessa: I don’t understand.
Maverick: Who the hell is Bogdan Belyaev?
Alessa: He’s the man who you go to in Ukraine to get help to come to the US.