Chapter 33: Blessed Are the Ones…
“Lean back a little more.” Bernard rinses the blade in the warm water in the porcelain basin and presses it to McGauran’s foamy cheeks again. “Ah, finally, your face is emerging out of all that red hair.”
They’re in Bernard’s modest room and McGauran shifts in the chair, leaning his head back as Bernard asked. He must admit it. This shave feels great. Almost as good as that hot bath full of scented oils he regretfully had to leave. Maybe now Honoré will kiss him, or at least, let him near him. Maybe it was his scruffy appearance that caused Honoré to stay away.
“Would you like me to cut your hair?” Bernard gently pats McGauran’s clean-shaven face with a cold linen wash cloth. “It’s gotten long around the ears and in the back.”
McGauran sits up, the cha
