Poisoned by His Love novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: What She Said

I did not say anything else.

I put the bag on the floor and held out my arms.

He crossed the room.

He sat down on the boards in front of me, and I pulled his head to my shoulder.

He was shaking.

"Tell me," I said. "All of it. I'm not going anywhere."

For a long time he only breathed.

"She got sick in the spring after the wedding," he said at last. "A numbness in her feet. Then her hair."

"I know. I read the chart."

"I took her to six doctors."

"They gave it six names."

"I made her tea every night, because it was the only thing she could keep down."

"Ginger and honey."

"From a tin."

His voice cracked.

"My uncle sent a tin every month."

"Imported, from a shop in Naples he owns a piece of."

"She liked it."

"She asked for it by name."

I went very still.

"Your uncle."

"My uncle."

The old man with the silver hair, who had passed me bread.

Who had patted my hand and told me not to mind Ruggero.

"The last night she woke at ten to three," Sandro said.

"Clear as a bell."

"She took my wrist, and she said, It's the tea."

"Not you, Sandro."

"Never you."

"It's the tea."

"She knew."

"She'd worked it out. She was a smart woman. She said, Send the priest home. He's my uncle's. Don't let him in the room."

"The priest."

"My uncle had brought him himself, to comfort her. She didn't want him near her. She wanted her last minutes without a stranger in them."

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