Chapter 29: They’re lesbians, Cass
"Are you hurting someone?" Cass asked, leaning forward slightly. "Is someone going to be in pain when they hear of what you two were doing? Am I going to have to clean up the mess?" Lady Fiona seemed startled by his words.
"W-Well, I hope not, but I do have three other husbands. They might...they might be hurt." Cass blinked. Why was she bringing up her husbands?
"They’re big, powerful men. They can handle it." Cass told her, waving his hand and she frowned.
"They aren’t as strong as you think they are, Lord Cassian." Lady Fiona protested, and Cass gave her a strange look. He knew that she probably saw them in a different light then he did, but he didn’t think that they were weak emotionally either.
Yes, they did open up to Lady Fiona, but that didn’t mean they didn’t have others to rely on. Unlike Lord Blackburn, they were liked, well liked, and usually had a group of people fawning over them, trying to curry their favour.
Lord Blackburn did not have the same.
Even from Lady Fiona’s perspective, Lord Blackburn was an outlier. An outcast. She never called him that, but she did say that there were a few times that he looked...lonely. In the book, it was clear that she felt sympathy towards him. Maybe that was why he allowed her to kiss her, even if they were in a contract marriage.
Obviously that fact was never brought up in the book. It would only make Lady Fiona look bad, so she wouldn’t have made any notes on it. Cass thought it was funny that the one marriage that she had actually planned was one where they had no feelings of affection for each other.
"I think you treat them too kindly, Lady Fiona. Those men...have many people who look out for them." Cass said it quietly, sighed and then ran his hand through his hair. "They can handle something like this." Lady Ava’s face twisted, and tears began to stream down her face.
"Y-You don’t know that! The doctrine says nothing about couples like us, but they still twist it and say that it’s unnatural! I can’t-I don’t want Eddie to look at me with disgust! I don’t think I could stomach it. And the guilt! I can’t handle it anymore, Cassian!" She broke down, sobbing into her hands and Cass felt his eyes widen.
Lady Fiona fell to her knees before Lady Ava, murmuring soft words of comfort to her as she sobbed while Cass processed everything he’d just heard.