For All Eternity by Linda Lael Miller

Author:Linda Lael Miller [Miller, Linda Lael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0425144569
Published: 2011-09-03T07:00:00+00:00

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His father spread one surprisingly strong hand behind his son's head and pressed him close, into his shoulder. "Forgive me," he pleaded again. "Forgive me for not being the man you are."

In the next moment Calder felt the old man's spirit leave his body like warm vapor rising into the air. It was as simple, and as complex, as that, and having witnessed the phenomenon a hundred times before did nothing to lessen its impact.

He drew back, looked into the familiar face, and saw empty, staring eyes. Gently, with practiced fingers, Calder lowered his father's eyelids.

Regret filled him, regret that he had waited so long to face and accept the love he'd always borne for this man. He sat there for a long while, keeping a lonely vigil, and only when Prudence came in, sometime later, did Calder stand and move to the window where he stood staring out at the sunlit courtyard below.

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"He's gone," he said quietly.

Prudence wept and wailed and began to pray, and it seemed to Calder that, for all her noisy suffering, she was better off than he was. She knew how to release her emotions, at least, while he'd carried his own around like the carcass of an albatross.

It was really no wonder, Calder thought numbly, that he'd lost everything and everyone who had ever mattered to him. He did not know how to love.

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