QUOTE : Can you not forgive him, Ricco? Please, I am begging you, for his sake. . . please forgive him.”<br /><br />Their eyes locked. <br /><br />His, agonizing. <br /><br />Hers, pleading.<br /><br />“You truly loved him, did you? You loved my grandfather.”<br /><br />She met his gaze unflinchingly. “I wouldn’t marry a man I do not love.”<br /><br />“Enough to ask forgiveness for his stead?”<br /><br />She nodded solemnly. “And more, if need be. I would do anything for him who had done nothing but kindness to me because he deserved it, Ricco. Despite everything he’d done, and because of everything he did for you, your grandfather . . . deserved to be un-hated.