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Everything you need to settle our estates is in there I knoe’re leaving you alone, but I’ve made sure you’ll be able to afford every resource you could ever need
Tanu says she’s drea future for you, and I want to believe her, but if fate isn’t so kind, then you’ll have the ht it I couldn’t find the answer, but another surgeon ht
Make sure Tanu’s brain is autopsied; compare it to the results of Mom’s autopsy—I had it done privately after the accident The report is in the safe-deposit box, along with full scans of her brain The associated slides are in a special e facility you’ll find the details of in the box Make sure the pathologist follows the foret all the required information If he balks once he has cause of death, hire a private pathologist to redo that part
You’ve lived without fear for so long Keep on doing it, keep on being the strongest of us all
With all rief slae “Don’t go with reen eyes that had laughed with her across the world “Don’t make that choice when it happens for me”
Arms locked around her, Janvier shook his head, his jaw set in a way she’d seen only rarely She’d lost the argule time “No,” he said, “that you cannot ask of ripped his jacket on either side, tried to shake hiry tears forifted hands will never again pick up a scalpel, never again give sorowled “You said it yourself It was his choice to go today, when he was happier than he’d been for decades!”
“Arvi has been heading toward this since the day Tanu was first diagnosed! You’re whole, healthy”
“I won’t be after you!” His fury filled the car, his voice raw “I won’t be me after you”
“Honor ca a secret she’d spoken to no other “I proht not wear the same face, the same name, but she’d know him Always, she’d know hilittering wet, Janvier’s fingers dug into her hips “You’re sentencing me to an eon alone How can you ask that?”
“Because you’re strong enough to bear the pain”
“No, I’m not”
She kissed him, her hand curved around his neck “You need to be I need to know you’ll be here when I return”
He wouldn’t look at her, his id, and she knew she’d lost the battle today But it wasn’t over The disease inside her ht, but she would not let it snuff out Janvier’s