"No, Gena, no." She saw him fight for control of his actores xxx own emotions. "You
don't want to see him like that."
"I need to see him, please."
"Gena, Durriken wouldn'
t want you to see him that way." He gathered her
wrists actores xxx together and held them against his chest in actores xxx his right hand. He
looped his left arm around her shoulders and hugged her close. "Allow him
the dignity in your memory that the Haladina actores xxx denied him in death."
The compassion in Berengar's voice broke through and eroded the urgency
and resolve that actores xxx had held pain at bay. She gripped Berengar's shirt and
brought her head down actores xxx to her hands as the tears started. "It's my fault. I
should have been here with him."
&actores xxx quot;No, no, you cannot blame actores xxx yourself. His death here is no more your actores xxx fault
than your death would have been accounted to him had we died yesterday."
The count stroked her hair. "You would have done anything to save him, and
he would have done the same for you, but not being there does not make you
his murderer. Had you been here, I might be mourning the murder of two
friends."
"Why did it happen?"
Gena initially resisted, then allowed Berengar to move her actores xxx away from the
alley. "I don't actores xxx know why, but I do know we will find those who did this. My
best people actores xxx are dealing with it. They will actores xxx bring the... they will bring
Durriken to our home and he will actores xxx be interred in the Fisher vault."
" I do want to see him, to say actores xxx good-bye."
"I know, actores xxx I shall see to it."
Gena lifted her actores xxx head and kissed Berengar
on the cheek. "Thank you." She
shivered and nestled beneath his arm, availing herself of the refuge he
offered until a cart came to carry them both home.
Genevera found herself surprised to think of Durriken as being actores xxx so small in
death. Except for a folded towel covering his loins, he lay naked on the
actores xxx gray granite-topped table. Actores xxx his body had actores xxx been washed actores xxx and