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Malorn wriggled his arm from Archie's grasp, slipping away and out of the house, into the driveway. He headed to their car, hiding in the backseat, laying under the blanket he'd brought for the ride. This was a mistake. Their entire relationship must be a mistake, a fluke in Malorn's life. He'd never been accepted or loved, and then he had Archie, but Archie's family didn't seem to accept him. Archie's mother, Martha, didn't look back at her youngest son, ushering Sully outside, murmuring to him, "This is a good thing, dear, Archie is the last one to find somebody. Whether or not he is Russian doesn't mean he's bad news."