Unusual people

She read the deeper meaning in his words. You like Colt well enough, right? She asked, setting the sawdust aside to keep her hands free. I think I like him a lot. He treats me right and not like, well a whore. And if the tavern is enough, I think I wanna try and give him the type of woman he deserves. No more whoring. She thought a moment, and then nodded. No more whoring but I might still take a lover now and then until something more.. permanent is decided between me and Colt. She wouldn't confirm who, if asked, she was sure Coop knew that she saw Ruth simply for good sex.

But it was his next words that brought tears along her lash line, a frog in her throat, and a staggering breath.

Mina had simple wants in life. To be loved, for her the man that had been her father her entire life to be proud of her.

So when those words finally settled in, when meaning finally set in to the deeper recesses of her brain, to her heart, she couldn't stop the tears once they started.

She had needed that. Her entire life, she had needed that. To know that Coop was proud of her, because it meant that he loved her. She couldn't stop it when she hugged him, burying her face into his sternum. Her words were slurred with emotions, muffled by his tunic, but there was a very real possibility that she said, I love you too dad.