Find out how to Tame My Beastly Husband — Chapter 241. Gravestone (2)
Raphael’s brusque method had steadily evaporated over her lengthy sickness. Annette spent an increasing number of time in mattress, her stunning face all of the sudden hole, her voice steadily weakening. In the long run, there had solely been a chilly silence.
Raphael started to tempo.
This girl had appeared so small to him in life, and occupied solely this small area after loss of life. She was a girl with out greed.
What was he doing right here? Raphael puzzled as he regarded on the tombstone that marked the place the place she lay. There was no cause for him to be standing within the snow in a cemetery. He had fulfilled all of his duties as a husband, and laid his spouse to her everlasting sleep. So why was he nonetheless haunting her tombstone? He couldn’t perceive it.
He had been a heartless husband. It had taken him a very long time to know that his spouse was very unwell. He hadn’t realized how severe it was till the day he had come all of the sudden into the room to catch Annette vomiting.
He had been shocked. He had slapped her exhausting on the again to assist her get it out, and she or he had shoved him away.
“Go away. That is disgusting.”
“Does it matter? Shut up and throw up.”
As soon as she was finished vomiting, she lay down on her mattress. Her face was very white, and her eyes, which had been stunning as spring, now regarded lifeless. It shocked him that she regarded so unwell.
He had not anticipated it to have an effect on him a lot.
Raphael by no means spent a lot time at house. He excused it together with his coaching to change into Grasp of Swords, but it surely was additionally simply to flee. He didn’t like his conversations with Annette. He at all times ended up saying nasty issues to her.
However that cowardly determination had penalties. Annette turned her physique away from him on the mattress. With out a phrase, she made her needs clear. She needed him out of the room as quickly as doable.
Raphael didn’t wish to depart, however the very first thing he did was to seek out Annette’s physician. The lady couldn’t even look him within the eye.
“I did attempt to ship you a report the opposite day, my lord, however I couldn’t discover you…” She started, excusing herself.
He frowned. His servants had tried to inform him a number of instances, however he had angrily dismissed them. He needed to change into Grasp of Swords as quickly as doable, and he didn’t care about any of the trifling enterprise of the Carnesis mansion.
He was regretting this foolishness now.
“So, what’s fallacious along with her?” He requested.
“Her inside organs have suffered important injury,” she replied. “If it had been detected earlier, maybe it might have been prevented. However I’m afraid we found it too late…”
Raphael’s coronary heart dropped.
He had by no means imagined that her life was in peril. He had at all times assumed she obtained sick on a regular basis as a result of her physique was so fragile.
“There’s nothing? Medicines, or international therapies…”
The physician shook her head. Her face was grim.
“She doesn’t have lengthy. I estimate two years at most. Please…maintain her, my lord.”
Raphael couldn’t converse. The second he heard these phrases, he couldn’t breathe.