Chapter 130. His Wife

“I know and understand your pain, but please think of your children, I beg of you,” she said as she set down chicken soup with rice for me.

I looked at the food and then at the nurse, who stood aside and hadn’t even taken a bath or a shower, let alone eaten a meal.

“Do me a favor, get that nurse back home. She was kidnapped, and I want her home,” I mumbled slowly as she smiled at me sadly.

“I will tomorrow, it’s quite late,” she said as she nodded to the nurse, who followed her, not before murmuring a silent thank-you to me.

As soon as they left and I was alone, I walked to my sleeping children and looked at them. They reminded me of him. I couldn’t imagine living without him; I couldn’t go on without him; and I also couldn’t leave my children.

Maybe if I killed myself, they would be under the Medici