The worst part about loving someone, Merripen, is that there will alВ­ways be things you can't protect her from. Things beВ­yond your control. You finally realize there is something worse than dying . . . and that is having something hapВ­pen to her. You have to live with that fear always. But you have to take the bad part, if you want the good part.' Kev looked at him bleakly. 'What's the good part?' A smile touched Cam's lips. 'All the rest of it is the good part,' he said, and went.