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Chapter 3: Inara
The Operative would have kidnapped her. The bastard would have taken advantage of her. Then he would've used her as bait to lure Mal to him.
Mal. She never wanted to leave his ship. But she couldn't lie to herself any longer. It killed her to sleep on the same ship as him. It killed her to be having sex when Mal was right there! When she eaten dinner with him the night before.
She had to stop lying to herself. She was in love with Mal! How jealous had she been when he had supposedly married "Saffron"? Very jealous, she thought.
Now that she knew she couldn't lie to him! But she couldn't just not be a companion. It just didn't work that way. Resigning was a very complicated process. She was head over heels and it was going to be hard.