"You're kidding me right? Marta, I know sometimes you have odd request but this one is beyond ridiculous. If it's between my life or yours I won't hesitate to fall on the knife or take a bullet. I wouldn't enjoy it, but I refuse to just stand by idly while you die. What kind of question is that? Was getting me this necklace back a way to push your idea on me?" Ezra asked getting more angry by the second. He pushed her away from him and sat up letting his legs hang over the bed his back facing her. He was clenching the bed sheet so tight his knuckles began to grow white and his muscles tensed up. 

He couldn't believe what she had just asked of him. She had to be insane to think he'd watch her die before his eyes. That he would save himself over her. Had everything that happened thus far just went right over her head? He wasn't sure if she was starting to lose her mind or if she was having regrets, but the necklace around his neck began to weigh on him with guilt of a choice he refused to make. He would do anything to make her happy, but to sacrifice her for himself was not something he would give her.

"You're mad. You've let your fears cloud your whole head. I don't care if I have a family or a community that needs me. If that moment arises I will give up my life for yours. I have nearly died becau...for you already and you're going to ask me a question like that. You might as well go back home if you think I'm going to agree to that idea of yours. Haven't you realized why my parents have tense around you? They know I don't value my life. They know if you and I are ever out in public and someone were to attack I would take the beatings no questions asked so that you could run. I told you to run when Oscar was trying to kill me and you stupidly stood there and got yourself hurt also. You are the one who should be making a promise like that to me. If we have kids you are the one they would need, the one they would want. I can't go home and tell them their mother died because I made a promise years ago. I would never live with myself," Ezra was yelling by this time and he had stood up and attempted to pace the room multiple times only to be forced to lean against the wall for support. He hadn't looked at her since he started the tangent and he still refused to. His words were harsh, but they were true and she would have to live that.

He eyes landed at the floor and he took a couple deep breaths opening his mouth a few times like he had more to say, but wasn't sure how to go about it. Finally after the silence seemed to go on forever he spoke, "If you die, I die. That's all there is to it. Your life ends then so does mine."