The Bitter Journey - Who's Redemption

I Beg One of the Two Nans to Be Possessive and the Other to Be Indulgent.

I want to see one party worrying about gains and losses and being possessive, while the other party is indulgent and even secretly happy (preferably a pseudo-imprisonment)

I'm short of books and want to read a short story about two men! ! The subject matter is random, the ending