"It is my duty." He spoke.Lynwe squatted on top of the roof of the twelve story building, her amber eyes focused on the window on the apartment buildi...g across from her. These last two weeks, indeed these last two months had been life altering for her, all of it in a good way. The hate for the Alliance still burned within her, but now it was buried deep. Aihola and Tarifa had taught her how to feel again, how to love. Her time with them had been like applying a soothing balm to an open wound.. She let out a blood-curling scream before trying to rush over to her husband's body. Arriann grabbed her and Kailynn and lead them out of the study. He pulled them to him and hugged them as tight and hard as he could. Kailynn clung to him, like he was the light that wards off the dark, while Helen fought him, to go back into the study.He reached into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone. 3 numbers later, an emergency operator answered."9-1-1, what your emergency?"Arrian spoke, as calmly as. ”“Caroline has been good for both of us, but it adds to my guilt that I have denied Gabby the love and support she so clearly needed.”“It’s not too late to fix this, Robert.”“I will, I just need a few days.” Suddenly Robert felt a great weight slip from his shoulders and his smile made him look 10 years younger.“You know, Fiona, I’m quite put out with you about this.”“I’m sorry I kept this from you for so long, but I wanted to be sure that you were ready and until now, you haven’t seemed to. I discovered a bayonet blade in the throat the best way to dispatch them as they lay floundering on the ground. I fully admit this was not a very noble action for an officer and a gentleman to commit. However, I did it for the men in the ranks, and not merely to assuage my blood lust, besides which I am of yeoman stock and as such do not possess those finer feelings reserved for ‘gentry’.The men of the battalion had suffered most grievously at the hands of cuirassiers at Quatre Bras, and this.