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No, the universe wasn’t fair And if that weren’t lah, when the opportunities came for justice, Franciscans like Julianne turned the other cheek and spoke of mercy
Damn
He closed his eyes
She’d turned the other cheek to hih, he focused his attention on Assisi and what had happened to him when he visited the crypt God had met him there, but not with justice With mercy
“Call your uncle”
“Gabriel, I—”
He opened his eyes and unclenched his fist but didn’t turn around
“Just call hied the sheet free, winding it around her petite fra her front to his back
“You want to protect me You want justice I love you for that”
“I still wish I’d killed hiainst his shoulder blade
His muscles tensed “How so?”
“You love er I’ to do with him seems like a bad dream So in many ways, you have killed him You’ve killed his reat wave of love and so he couldn’t quite name washed over him
Julia kissed his shoulders and went to call her uncle
Chapter Sixty-two
That evening, Julia and Gabriel dined at Kelly’s Manhattan aparthters, Andrea and Meredith
Julia felt welco, they were visiting like old friends rather than strangers
Kelly gave Gabriel a pair of cuff links and an old Brooklyn Dodgers cap that had belonged to their father, along with several books that had been written by their grandfather
Gabriel gave Kelly the knowledge that the train engine he had, was, in fact, their father’s He’d carved the initials “OS” into it as a boy, when his nael
The Erove, and there was talk of a joint holiday in the Ha summer Kellyof the Rabbi Benja her brother to the cousins
Back at the Ritz before bedtiers cap, since it was almost too small for Gabriel’s head
(A fact she pointed out with no little amusement)
She stared at her laptop screen frolasses
“Scheisse”
“I really need to start teaching you to curse in a different language I’ve heard that Farsi has some particularly colorful expletives” Gabriel smirked as he walked toward her, clad in a plush hotel bathrobe
“I’m not sure Farsi could capture what I feel when I look at this” Julia pointed to the screen
Gabriel picked up his glasses and put thee Simon Talbot immediately