"Let's not talk about that right now," Sookie murmured, shaking her head vigorously as soon as Nina went in precisely the opposite direction that she was expecting. Maybe it was true, and maybe Mitchell's good side was there, just as it'd been for every single day of their relationship, but Sookie didn't know how to access it anymore. Didn't know how sincere it was, or if it was just a desperate man's attempt at hiding a life that had no place on the island. Hiding desires that would only have him jailed. It would've been so much easier, she thought to herself, if all of it had been a lie, or all of it a truth too hastily buried. But the fact that everything was drawn in shades of gray just made it that much harder.

"I don't want to think about how much good there is in him, or bad, I just... I don't even know what I was lookin' for. Making sure that you knew, maybe, or hoping that he was just being an ass and lying to me because of how much I pushed," she sighed. "I'm sorry for dragging everyone in the mud. You had to know though, right? I couldn't have kept something like this all to myself."