Reviello's Wrong Bride
Finally, he lays his eyes on Sante, who has remained with closed eyelids for twelve years.
Douglas sits down in the chair beside the bed and takes his father's hand in his, so fragile, with bones protruding to the skin, and veins that have tubes connected to it.
“Theodor is dead, Dad.” Douglas says in a low, sad voice, “Gioacchino killed him.”
As much as he didn't want to admit it, there was a vain hope that his words would reach his father and bring him out of the coma he had been in all this time, but nothing happened. And even if that foolish expectation has not been realized, he can't feel even disappointed.
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